Source: orlandosentinel.com 5/12/23
Peter Washington Jr. had never voted in his life. But, in May 2019, he filled out a voter application so he could join his wife and “do something good.”
“We had just gotten married,” he said. “We were doing a lot of things together.”
Days after submitting his application, he was cleared by the state and received his voter ID in the mail. In October of the following year, the couple walked into the Hiawassee Library, near their home in Pine Hills.
“I was anxious … scared,” Washington, 59, said. “I didn’t know what to expect. My wife, she did it a couple times and she told me, ‘You’re over-exaggerating it.’ I just never did it before.”
Washington, who was convicted of a sex offense in the mid-1990s, still felt hesitant despite the voter registration card and being called for jury duty twice in the last decade. He asked an administrator at the library if he could vote. Washington said she checked his ID and typed on a computer before telling him, from the looks of things, he was eligible.
He and his wife filled out their ballots and then went out to eat.
In August, less than a year later, he and 19 others in majority Democrat counties across the state were swiftly jailed in the first significant action taken by Gov. Ron DeSantis’ election police unit, the Office of Election Crimes and Security.
DeSanctimonius being the same party faction claiming “The big lie” is anything other than truth. Either election fraud existed on a significant scale OR it did not. Here, DeSanctimonius proves fraud existence, but only by the sex offenders. Sex offenders are not by definition also democrats.
Think back to Bush v Gore people. Both parties communicate as if both frauds are true and significant. It is both necessary* and sufficient** for them to qualify to do so. However inevitably given election fraud is statistically significant BOTH SIDES are engaged in fraud.
*Justice Stevens (Smith v Doe) recognized unproven necessity of a “new” thing is by definition “unproven ground.” Want disguised as need. What human lust conservatives by definition swear to abhor. ( Insert demure)
** Sufficiency of an old thing, any given thing, even 1 felony relies heavily upon the notion of fair trial availability in practical terms, which may not have existed in the qualifying trial itself.
His point being, the majority court failed to acknowledge ANY structural issues or complications from the extra jurisdictional reach normally prohibited BUT afforded Congress ( Alaska) via sex offender registration statutes. The majority put aside the fact NOT all felony convictions face peer scrutiny in the appellate courts.
The sex offender, the gov database, and the vote. Sounds like a trifecta to me.
Wow. What a sore loser. (I’m referring to Desantis btw)
He and others in his situation were cleared by the state, so it sounds like entrapment. Florida can’t get any lower and I believe Florida’s legislature is scared of registrants and their families gaining strength in numbers, which could explain the punitive bills making life more difficult so registrants will move. I thought southern states were supposed to show hospitality, but practice hostility.
DeSantis is a scary, dangerous man with a scary, dangerous following. These people don’t value anything but their own agendas. It seems like every time Civil Rights take a step forward, a DeSantis type person pulls everything ten steps back. What a battle for common sense and decency.