President Joe Biden signed an executive order Sunday directing federal agencies to develop a plan to increase voter registration and participation across the United States.
By Ryan Shepard
Mar 3, 2021
LeBron James More Than A Vote has partnered with the Georgia NAACP, NBA and the NBA Players Association to combat voter suppression during the 2021 NBA All-Star Weekend. The campaign will attempt to stop the state from enacting suppressive voting laws that would “require more ID for absentee ballots, limit weekend early voting days, curb the use of ballot drop boxes, eliminate no-excuse mail-in voting and restrict mass-voting sites such as arenas. We’re teaming up with the NBA, the NBA Players Association, Georgia NAACP to take on voter suppression during NBA All-Star weekend in Atlanta, More Than A Vote wrote.
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We should vaccinate inmates. Go ahead and scream. But here’s why . | Commentary
Orlando Sentinel 3/2/2021 Scott Maxwell, Orlando Sentinel
Today I want to talk about a wildly unpopular idea vaccinating inmates.
I know this proposal will trigger a lot of people. So let’s go ahead and get the screaming out of the way.
YOU THINK A CAREER CRIMINAL IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN MY MEE-MAW??
YOU MUST HAVE ROCKS IN YOUR SKULL WHERE A BRAIN SHOULD GO!
Feel better? Now, with gut reactions out of the way, let’s talk about why health experts say this is smart public policy.
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Florida Rights Restoration Coalition
In 2018 almost 65% of Florida voters cast ballots in support of Amendment 4 to the state constitution, the ballot initiative to restore voting rights to citizens who’d been convicted of certain felonies after they had completed their sentences. Its successful passage restored voting rights to more than 1.4 million Floridians at least that’s what its authors intended.
Despite strong bipartisan support, as soon as Amendment 4 passed the Republican legislature limited its scope to only include people who owed no money to the state. After a series of court challenges, on September 11, 2020 the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled that the requirement for felons to pay fines did not violate the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and so former felons couldn’t vote until they paid all fees and fin