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PolitiFact - Floridians with felony records face illegal voting charges The state allowed them to register

10/21/2022 6:00:00 PM

After much debate in 2018 Floridians decided to amend the state& rsquo s constitution so certain felons & mdash once out

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Miami-Dade judge dismisses charges against one of the 19 voters arrested in the voter fraud cases announced by DeSantis. State law says that it’s the state’s job to verify voter eligibility, and the defendants said they were allowed to register. After much debate in 2018, Floridians decided to amend the state's constitution so certain felons - once out BySeptember 9, 2022If Your Time is shortFloridians in 2018 voted to amend the state’s constitution and allow certain felons  to regain their right to vote after leaving prison.Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration said this year that about 20 felons who were out of prison have been charged with false affirmation in voting or elections and voting as an unqualified elector in the 2020 election. Some felons say they didn’t know they were ineligible to vote. DeSantis has suggested that county officials didn’t do their jobs and allowed felons to vote. Voting rights advocates say it’s state officials who are failing to verify eligibility.After much debate in 2018, Floridians decided to amend the state’s constitution so certain felons — once out of prison — could regain the right to vote. Floridians were persuaded that felons who did not commit major crimes, such as murder or sexual assault, should have a say in issues that affect everyday life. Read more:
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Said prices are not quite as low as those  occasionally charged by Woot and other third-party retailers, but Apple's refurbs are arguably unlike everything else on the market. Ron DeSantis’ administration said this year that about 20 felons who were out of prison have been charged with false affirmation in voting or elections and voting as an unqualified elector in the 2020 election. Some felons say they didn’t know they were ineligible to vote. DeSantis has suggested that county officials didn’t do their jobs and allowed felons to vote. Voting rights advocates say it’s state officials who are failing to verify eligibility. After much debate in 2018, Floridians decided to amend the state’s constitution so certain felons — once out of prison — could regain the right to vote. Floridians were persuaded that felons who did not commit major crimes, such as murder or sexual assault, should have a say in issues that affect everyday life. Four years later, some felons are finding themselves facing charges again. This time, for voting. About 20 people have been charged with false affirmation in voting or elections and voting as an unqualified elector in the 2020 election. These are third-degree felonies, and convictions can lead to five years in a Florida prison. So far, 19 of the 20 have been arrested.  Some of the people arrested say they thought they could register to vote and participate in elections. "I don’t really understand, how did I commit fraud?" Leo Grant Jr., a 55-year-old Palm Beach County resident told the . "I don’t understand any of this stuff." Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has that local county officials are at fault, arguing that it’s their responsibility "to ensure that those voting roles are accurate. " "Some local jurisdictions, they just don’t care about election laws," DeSantis said Aug. 30. Meanwhile, voting rights advocates say state officials are the ones who are in the wrong. "At the end of the day it's the state’s responsibility to determine voter eligibility for our statewide system," said Neil Volz, deputy director of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition. What’s going on in Florida?  Voter registration process for felons is complicated  For decades, the process for felons to regain their voting rights was a long shot, but it was clear. The Clemency Board, a group of statewide officials, held the power to restore rights to felons. The process often required felons to attend a hearing in Tallahassee, the state capital, and ask to have their rights restored. All of that changed in 2018, when 65% of voters agreed to amend the state constitution to restore voting rights to most felons who had completed their sentences. Amendment 4 did not apply to felons who committed murders or felony sexual assault. (Felons not covered by the amendment can still seek review by the Clemency Board. ) For years, debate over what it meant to complete a sentence bogged down the amendment’s implementation. In 2019, the Republican-led Legislature passed a law requiring that felons first pay off their fines and related court fees. A court upheld that legislation shortly before the 2020 election. Here is the problem: The state has no easy way for felons to discern whether they still owe money, sometimes from cases decades ago. And the voter registration form doesn’t say that those with murder or felony sex convictions are ineligible to automatically regain their voting rights. A .