Florida Restoration of Voter Rights Backlogged

The Florida Rights Restoration Coalition has established the website www.restoremyvote.org. Florida residents with felon convictions can check the website to find out if their voting rights have been restored.

The Orlando Sentinal reports that 7,000 felons are having their rights restored every month. That is good news. The bad news is there is still a tremendous backlog. The American Civil Liberties Union and People for the American Way Foundation are pushing for a more streamlined process. The Racial Justice Project is advocating automatic restoration of voting rights. I don't see that happening with Bill McCollum on the Clemency Board.

McCollum and wingnut Betty Sembler were doing everything in their power to maintain the felon voting laws that were created during the Jim Crow era. Journalists should ask McCollum why he politicaly aligned himself with Sembler. Her program Save Our Society from Drugs has been accused of abusing teens. The best way to get a tough on crime conservative nervous is asking about the alleged crimes of political allies.