Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently raised more than $16 million to help restore voting rights for people convicted of felonies in Florida.
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody requested a federal investigation into Bloomberg's fundraising initiative in response toarticle. Moody suggested the initiative violated election laws in a letter issued to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and Federal Bureau of Investigation, which called for further inquiry.
Jason Schechter, a Bloomberg spokesperson, reportedly described the attorney general's response as a"transparent political ploy" and"the latest example of Republicans attempting to keep Floridians disenfranchised" in a subsequent statement, according to NBC News. In early September, an Appeals Court in Atlanta ruled Florida residents with previous criminal convictions must pay court fines and fees in order to register to vote,reported. The decision overturned a federal judge's ruling over the summer, which determined the Florida law requiring those payments was discriminatory and unconstitutional. Roughly 1.4 million people convicted of past feloniesin Florida with the passage of an amendment to the state's constitution in 2018.
President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Middletown, Pennsylvania, on September 26. Trump accused Michael Bloomberg of committing"a serious crime" on Sunday morning, in reference to the former New York City mayor's recent efforts to restore voting rights to people previously convicted of felonies in Florida.People convicted of felonies are not permitted to vote while incarcerated in the majority of U.S. states, according to ProCon.org.
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