Days after the U.S. Supreme Court dropped a lowering court order that can prevent thousands of people convicted of crimes in Florida from voting in the November election, NBA superstar LeBron James announced his goal of donating $100.00 to remove voting barriers.
The donation, from James More Than A Vote’s new organization, comes when voter turnout looks like a primary in the November election, attracting celebrities and Black Lives Matter activists to the cause of denying their voting rights.
More Than A Vote said he planned to make a donation to the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, one of the leading organizations in a 2018 voting measure that restored the right to vote to former criminals, who were then denied a vote if they had one. unpaid fines or court fees, according to ABC News.
More Than A Vote describes itself as an organization of black athletes and artists fighting the “systemic and racist repression of the electorate through education, energy and protecting our network by 2020.”
The donation comes after the Supreme Court refused to interfere in a case that critics call the Florida “pay-to-play” law, which for some referred to Jim Crow’s notorious “vote tax”.
In Iowa, the state of the country that forbids a lifelong vote after a crime conviction, Black Lives Matter activists are pressuring Governor Kim Reynolds to issue an executive order granting criminals who have served their sentences the right to vote, according to the Register of Monks.
Stacey Abrams, cited as a possible running mate of alleged Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, made voter suppression his non-public bill after squandering the 2018 gubernatorial race opposed to Republican Brian Kemp, amid a complaint about his large purge of the government’s black and brown electorate. Reels.
“Your right to vote does not depend on whether or not you can pay to exercise it.”
The human rights deprivation factor for criminals has been in the midst of activists’ considerations since the 2000 presidential election, when incredibly thin margins in Florida decided the final election results. According to Fair Vote, some rights teams have stated that the deprivation of the right to vote of criminals has prevented a giant organization of minority citizens from voting to have an effect on the final results of the elections.
Kim Reynolds confirms he will sign the decree on voting rights (Des Moines registration)
LeBron James’s new nonprofit agrees to pay fines for former criminals to vote in Florida (ABC)
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