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"voters" and "people" are two different groups, of which there can be notable difference the harder is it to vote.

How to vote: (1) register, (2) vote. What is difficult about this? If you cannot follow through from 1 -> 2, you really should not vote.

Voter disenfranchisement has been part of the playbook for a long time now.

Take this issue for example - if this passes, and a teacher gets a felony from suggesting a book off of the pre approved list, they probably can't vote anymore.

Most felons in Florida are allowed to vote [1].

[1] https://www.findlaw.com/voting/my-voting-guide/can-felons-vo...

Less than half is not "most". 1.4 million felons were covered by the Amendment the voters approved to restore felon voting rights, but as your link states a few months later the legislature passed a law to limit that which made 775000 of those felons no longer eligible.

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