Thanks, Mike
Mike Bloomberg just raised $16 million to erase the fines of former felons who are already registered to vote and the fines are the only thing holding them back. That’s smart money because this effort targeted Hispanic and Black voters with fines under $1,500 – a group most likely votes and votes heavily Democratic.
In real numbers that’s about 32,000 Black and Hispanic votes that are now taken off the table.
The Bloomberg memo pointed out that the 31,790 targeted voters, including 25,548 who are Black, are nearly equivalent to the margin by which Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) won election in 2018, and about three times as big as the margin that elected Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) that same year.
Thanks, Mike.