sorry, but can we pause & acknowledge how freaking INSANE this is? FL politicians are sitting in a room to decide that a substantial share of their constituents shouldn't get to vote on them (literally, without the usual care to disguise suppression) & this isn't front-page news.
🚨news in Florida: a House committee has moved forward a bill to strip Floridians of right to vote if they haven't been able to fully pay court fines & fees. Hundreds of thousands could be disenfranchised.
Coups easier to pull off when universal suffrage devalued to start with.
Amendment 4 got majorities in ALL congressional & legislative districts. Bill would restrict how it's been implemented in January.
James Grant is GOP chair of committee that passed bill today; he got angry at idea it's a poll tax. https://t.co/9gW91VmHip
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