Florida has arguably some of the worst laws in regards to voting rights as many registered felons lose their right to vote indefinitely. Unlike Maine & Vermont where prisoners vote while incarcerated this type of extreme anti-democracy should not come as a surprise to the rest of the nation as the state has been riddled with Nazi-like corruption for quite some time; tons of children and young adults have been exposed to the bigoted peer pressure that still resonates throughout the state from the Civil War. Although certain scholars have attempted to correct the historical misinformation presented through modern public textbooks, federal taxing on seceding ports was the main economic issue that caused a split amongst the states. Rather than solve the issue of racial divide, the no-such-thing as a Civil War fueled racism to the point that we are at today.
Now prison populations have started to decline after nearly four decades of steadily rising numbers, and the African-American to Caucasian ratio has also began to become more proportionate; but with approximately a 4:1 ratio it's still uneven. With freedom being chanted at Americans everywhere we go it still remains difficult to ignore the true lack of it. Florida continues to create laws that make it harder and harder for people to vote that have been charged with a felonious crime, which seems to indicate that lawmakers are actually at the heart of immoral activity. One has to ask the question: What do we risk by allowing prisoners to vote?
With all the money that circulates from prison contracting it's also difficult to ignore that certain groups and individuals were profiting from it. Probationary systems, court fees & scheduling, policing, surveillance, and legislation seems to indicate a pattern in the state's financial issues. The same old players keep pushing for Draconian laws, and with the rise of the Internet the networks are becoming more and more obvious. The Drug War has been historically a racially and sexually prejudiced issue. Ninety-three percent of people imprisoned are male. So why the push to disenfranchise felons?
I'm not going to have to really jump off a cliff to postulate at this one. Florida's disproportionate populations of elders to youth combined with the well camouflaged racially-motivated politics has seemed to make the state one of the most corrupt. With the housing boom as a result of artificially injected capital in combination with the oil spill and the settlements around it a lot of people are well aware of the systemic injustices that has been inherited. Lavish spending amongst parties involved in public work projects also seems to indicate bankruptcy fraud in hopes of retrieving the vast amounts of money lost after the downturn.
The issue of restoring prisoners' right to vote is one that probably won't echo loud through the mainstream Florida media, but it truly is one of the most important issues. Essentially the more people the politicians throw in jail, the more likely they are to get re-elected; and for them that also means the less likely they would have to face a judge.
