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csziggy

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4. There should be a law that requires the state to notify immediately
Thu Oct 8, 2020, 06:00 PM
Oct 2020

How much each returning citizen owes within 30 days of their release. Then every six months to a year, they should be billed for the outstanding amount.

Part of the provision should be that if the returning citizen is not billed within a set amount of time, they can not be held responsible and their rights can not be abridged due to obligations they did not receive notice for.

This should be retroactive so that the state has to bill formerly incarcerated people within a set amount of time - six months or less - and if no notice of obligations is received in that time, the returned citizens cannot be held to owe anything.

Right now, since they do not know who owes what, they have disenfranchised thousands. I believe anyone who was not able to register - or who registered and that they try to take away their rights to vote - should sue the governor and his conspirators for taking away their rights.

When the majority of Florida voters voted for this amendment, they did not intend for the governor to invent a reason to continue the disenfranchisement of people who are just trying to have an interest in our country. I know I did not.

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