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Lib and let die posted:He also signed a bill that re-instituted the right to vote for formerly incarcerated people, while most people who would have had their right to vote restored do not, by injecting his own post-facto bullshit into it about having to pay legal fees first. The measure creating an easy path to restoration of ex-felon voting rights wasn't a bill, that was a constitutional amendment. DeSantis had no input into it whatsoever. The extra condition about requiring the payment of legal fees was added by the state legislature, on the initiative of individual legislators within the FL legislature. DeSantis signed the bill, because he's the governor and he has to sign everything he doesn't intend to veto, but didn't have any particular involvement with writing it or getting it through the legislature. The only thing DeSantis is good at is claiming sole credit for the activities of the GOP-dominated Florida legislature, which is happy to pass all sorts of culture war bullshit regardless of what he says or does. And they allow him to take the credit largely because they think he'll pay back all those political favors once he becomes president. As his presidential ambitions crumble, I think we'll see the legislature become significantly less obedient (not that it'll change much, since it's dominated by far-right types who agree with him on most political issues anyway).
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