Meanwhile in Florida:
Last election an amendment to the state constitution was passed that restored voting rights to people who completed their prison sentences. Well, the governor and the GOP legislature took a page of their favorite period of history (segregation) and subverted the electorate by imposing a poll tax:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/28/us/fl...ights.html
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/...fines-fees
Last election an amendment to the state constitution was passed that restored voting rights to people who completed their prison sentences. Well, the governor and the GOP legislature took a page of their favorite period of history (segregation) and subverted the electorate by imposing a poll tax:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/28/us/fl...ights.html
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/...fines-fees
“We can never undo what we have done. We can never go back in time. We write history with our decisions and our actions. But we also write history with our responses to those actions. We can leave the pain and the damage in our wake, unattended, or we can do the work of acknowledging and fixing, to whatever extent possible, the harm that we have caused.”
— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg
— On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World by Danya Ruttenberg