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People are so short sighted when it comes to imposing these types of laws. Sure, they get what they want so long as their side is in power. What happens when the Republicans get voted out? Would they be okay with the Democrats having these tools at their disposal?

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Efforts towards gerrymandering, and the tendency of people to move out of states with laws that oppress them, make such actions future-proof.

Also the extraordinary difficulty of voting in Florida if you have a felony charge.

I'm ok with convicted rapists having to sit elections out.

Judicial overreach of felonies is a different discussion.

Maybe the headline of this article is a clue as to which of those things is relevant here.

>and the tendency of people to move out of states with laws that oppress them

This is categorically false. More people are moving to states like Texas, Florida, and Georgia than states like California and New York. Blacks are moving in droves back to the South.

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