This piece is part of our weekly Prime series on voting rights, but it has been moved outside of the paywall while we cover COVID-19.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1308400
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1308400
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Florida (GOP) men. Antidemocratic, anti-science, anti-American.
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I have no words. The officials can’t really believe they can get away with this 
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Thing is, even if they lose they’ve still spent shitloads of those peoples’ money. On the way out the door they (and their orange-skinned master) will leave behind the wreckage of democracy and equality. They’ve done their damage and I’m sure, much as they’d love to do more, are going to look back at this as the heyday of drowning government in the bathtub.
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Rule or Ruin.
If Trump wins, it’s all good
If not, they are in Big Trouble
That’s the ballgame until November, in their minds.
(imagine what would have happened in the 1940s if the AXIS won)
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The more blatant they are the more concerned I am about what else they will be willing to do.
Their actions will cost many their lives and they know it but are still trying to get away with it. It’s unfathomable.
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The GOP has become the party of the Rich and racists whites - even if those rich folks will not attribute such racists values to themselves. That is the GOP constituency - not the rubes that will vote for them blinded by abortion prohibitions and guns ownership, but the wealthy for whom they actually act for. They do not want people of color entering their ranks and they do not care if their workers are harmed as long as they keep making the money they no longer need. The pitchforks are coming out for them . . . and I do not see an FDR on the horizon that make systemic changes that are needed.
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GOP=Guarantors Of Poverty
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Florida ( my state ) is in the grip of the GOP but they don’t have much of a grip. Elections here are won by thin margins with the GOP almost always prevailing. I suspect some of that is due to GOP’ers being the folks doing the counting. Scott and DeSantis won with paper thin margins or so says Scott. He was counting the votes then. If ex felons get the vote the GOP is done in Florida. They know that. They’ll play by the rules set by the Trump administration: Just do it…weather out the storm and you’ve got what you wanted. Think Michael Flynn. One way or the other, outlandish if necessary, the Florida GOP is going to stop felons from voting.
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The only bright spot is that even if GOP voter suppression continues unabated, sooner or later, most felons will be Republicans.
They should be careful what they wish for…
Wait. This headline needs some work.
Florida voters set to win …
GOP set for another loss …
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The GOP doesn’t care. The rules are different now. No one cares if you can “get away with it”…just so long as you do it.
Over 8 million people voted in Florida in 2018. DeSantis claimed victory by 33,000 votes or less than 1/2 of 1% of those that voted. Rick Scott claimed victory by less than 12000 votes or less than 0.2 %. Scott, who was Governor at the time, barley avoided a recount. I doubt he actually won. But there’s no doubt that neither of these malignant souls would be in office if felons got the vote. That’s why they’re going to stop this legislation any way they can. Which probably means running it up to SCOTUS and letting Roberts and his buddies do it.
So far I’ve not seen a journo work over the Florida 2018 numbers. Both Scott and DeSantis, hard core opponents of Amendment 4 ( felon vote ) were elected but 64% of Floridians voted for the amendment. So over a million people in Florida voted for 2 staunch opponents of 4 but overwhelmingly voted for 4. Something stinks.
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Thank you, Tierney Sneed, for citing a publication I had never heard of before, Democracy Docket. I plan to check it now and then regarding the fight to unskew the vote.