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, a 2018 voting measure that restored the right to vote to former criminals, who were later 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 banning lifetime voting 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.
Iowa’s lifetime ban applies unless the former offender turns to the governor’s workplace to repair his rights, and experts say more than 60,000 Iowa residents, adding nearly one in 10 African-American adults, cannot vote in the state because of a conviction for a previous felony. . Array according to the registry and ACLU-Iowa.
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.
The criminals’ right to vote has been a major fear for activists 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 sufficiently large organization of minority citizens from voting to the fullest and is likely 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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