ACLU: Gov. Ron DeSantis keeps flip-flopping on a crucial voting rights issue
For months, Gov. Ron DeSantis has claimed to support voter restoration, but everything he’s done until this point has undermined the goal of ensuring all Floridians have equal access to the ballot box.
After the passage of Amendment 4 in November 2018, which restored the right to vote to as many as 1.4 million returning citizens, many Floridians across the state expected to register to vote beginning in January 2019.
This historic occasion marked the end of lifetime felony disenfranchisement in Florida and paved the way for so many of our loved ones to make their voices heard in a state that for far too long denied them the ability to fully participate in our communities.
Then, DeSantis and the Florida Legislature stepped in, passing Senate Bill 7066 into law, an unconstitutional poll tax that eliminated the right to vote for hundreds of thousands of people in our state.
Read more: https://www.floridaphoenix.com/2019/11/25/aclu-gov-ron-desantis-keeps-flip-flopping-on-a-crucial-voting-rights-issue/