Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis said he will sign a bill that would require ex-felons in the state, who were granted the right to vote in a referendum last fall, to pay all financial obligations before they can head to the polls
"I'll sign it," DeSantis told reporters Tuesday during a news conference at the University of Miami.Critics of the bill had called on the governor to issue a veto and had likened the financial obligations to a"poll tax." DeSantis, however, said Tuesday that the"idea that paying restitution to someone is equivalent to a tax is totally wrong." "The only reason you're paying restitution is because you were convicted of a felony," DeSantis said.
People that bilk people out of money, sometimes that's an appropriate sentence. That's what the constitutional provision said," DeSantis said.Florida Democratic Party Chair Terrie Rizzo, however, called the bill an"ugly specter of the poll taxes that were enacted across the South" and argued that"history may view as a man more in line with the times of Jim Crow" if he signs the bill.
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