Good News on Florida Voting Rights

[Dardedar]

Florida Plan Gives Citizens Real Paper Ballots

North Florida. Retired Navy aviator and veteran, Bill Faulkner, MBA, may have done the impossible. He devised a plan to return believable elections to Florida by turning optical scan forms into the ballot of record, to be counted by citizens in public areas where all can view the process taking place. This radical departure from the maze of today's computerized voting harkens back to over 100 years of U.S elections history.

AND

Florida Gov. Crist Makes History

Will end permanent disenfranchisement of
Florida’s 600,000 ex-felons who’ve paid their debt

This is one of the most revolutionary and far reaching proposals made by a governor in years. The removal of voting rights for ex-felons, those who have served their time and returned to society, is a direct descendent of the 1890 Mississippi Constitution. This document proudly listed a variety of ways Post Reconstruction whites would remove all political power form black citizens.

DAR
Of course, you always have the right to choose to not vote and thus by this act of political self-castration have any consideration of your political input effectively ignored/nullified.

[Barbara Fitzpatrick]

Good for Florida (and the people who've done so much to bring democrasy back to it). I wish the "counting by citizens in public areas where all can view the process" was being used here, too.