Florida has been rigged since 2000.n/t

[JoeOtterbein]

[Wintryjade]

1. I think so.

[elleng]

2. Yes.

[NoMoreRepugs]

3. 1.5 million former felons being able to vote again in Florida is HUGE.

[spotthebird]

6. That's going to make alllll

the difference in 2020.

Just give it a rest. We need a day of peace

[NoMoreRepugs]

15. Agree.... battle won, still plenty of war to fight.

[YessirAtsaFact]

8. Yep. Gillum is losing by a little more than 80K votes and Nelson by 60K

Having these people who have served their time and paid their "debt to society" eligible to vote will make a difference.

There are many POC who had situations that could have resulted in lesser charges, but they got shafted by the courts and/or police.

[uponit7771]

10. +1

[spotthebird]

4. Yep. Nothing we can do about it.

Except not pretend there is hope.

They will play us like fools forever. Just don't pretend any longer

[question everything]

5. With so many from out of state moving there

I suspect that the core - the crackers - resist any new ideas

[obamanut2012]

11. The ones moving here are the ones voting for DeSantis and Scott

Elderly and semi elderly white people from up north who are registered Dems, but who love to vote for R white men. They are so racist it isn;t funny, and I'm a native Tarheel,a nd have lived in SOFL for years.

The crackers vote R, but are in very rural areas, all the Ds I know here are native Floridians

[question everything]

13. Interesting. I thought that he retirees in Miami are D from thr NE

On the other hand - the Gulf coast has people from Ohio

[lindysalsagal]

7. Maybe, but, they really do love the gop...

[brooklynite]

9. So Republicans rigged the FL results to allow ex-Felons to vote?

[NoMoreRepugs]

16. No, it was a ballot initiative/proposition to ALLOW felons

who have served their time and are no longer in prison to once again be able to vote. Florida one of 3 or 4 states that still disenfranchised that group.

Rethugs fought hard to defeat it. Large % of that group are AA males.

[brooklynite]

19. But th OP claims the FL vote was rigged...

But apparently they forgot about that one?

[tman]

12. Still amazes me how Obama won it twice.

[uponit7771]

20. +1

[Baitball Blogger]

14. What do we have to do to investigate the weird things that we are experiencing?

[Amaryllis]

17. ANd will be as long as they have voting machines.

[Blue_true]

18. The problem.

The election of Florida Governor and AG is offset to the presidential election by 2 years. This helps republicans because if a republican President screws up, a democratic President gets elected and fixes things before the Florida elections. Once a Florida republican get elected, that republican coattail on the democratic President's success and gets reelected, it has worked for Jeb Bush and Rick Scott, and may work for DeSantis.

[Ilsa]

21. Georgia took notes on how they did it.

Kemp engineered his victory over Abrams using voter suppression and disenfranchisement.