Felony Disenfranchisement: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

[DaCool]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpPyLcQ2vdI

Ah yes, another perfect example of the various ways of voter suppression

[Borealis]

"Especially in a state where elections tend to have very narrow margins"

"1.5 million disenfranchised people that served their sentences, 20% of black adults"

https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/250/498/dd3.png

[Skerious]

The fucking part at 6:55 where Rick Scott is going "you're at our mercy and we'll be completely arbitrary on how we'll decide on whether you deserve voting rights or not " like it wasn't fucking stupid, and the part at 9:15 where Leon Gillis explains that he did everything he was supposed to do and was clean for 8 years and yet Rick Scott wouldn't give him his voting rights back for no apparent fucking reason is so unbelievably fucking infuriating.

Why can't ex-convicts get their fucking rights back after they served their sentence?

[Borealis]

If Florida felons had their voting rights, Gore would have won in 2000, and Clinton might have won in 2016

[ASparkle]

Disenfranchisement should be a felony.

[Borealis]

Every GOP politician and every Illinois Democrat would be in jail