The Florida legislature then said “Shit! That’s 750,000 new voters”
To suppress that vote, they passed the law to prohibit those new voters whose fines and costs had not been satisfied in full, notwithstanding that many ex felons were current with their payment schedules. [Commonplace for Courts to successfully discharge a defendant from probation or parole, and convert the outstanding fines and costs to administrative payment schedule].
Many here would prefer to reinstate debtors’ prison.
Link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Florida_Amendment_4
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