the fine print on Florida’s voter forms warns applicants that giving false information is a felony. As Florida makes clear to potential voters, when you sign your registration, you swear an oath.
“Starting in 2004 and continuing up until close to 2008 we in fact litigated this issue in Florida – the so-called checkbox litigation- because people were disqualified from voting if they didn’t check the right boxes on their voter registration applications – the state of Florida litigated that case tenaciously.” (Comment by Jill)
So then JEB has committed voter fraud in every election since then since he checked the wrong box and thereby disqualified himself from voting.
“Florida republicans, and republicans in general, have tried to make it as difficult to vote as possible, and Jeb Bush himself had voter rolls scrubbed in 2000 to help his brother get elected. Republicans regularly talk about supposedly rampant voter fraud (though non-existent in reality), that needs to be stamped out because it’s undermining democracy itself. They claim that illegal immigrants are voting illegally in massive numbers, swinging elections. To fix this problem, republicans insist that massive barriers to voting need to be put up, and that no such barriers are too large. There have been many cases in Voter ID states where perfectly legal voters have been denied their right to vote because of minor errors or because of clerical mistakes, and republicans haven’t responded with so much as a shrug.”
“But, when their own presidential candidate engages in exactly that type of mistake, no one suggests he shouldn’t be allowed to vote like those they’ve disenfranchised. No, this was just a mistake. No need to concern ourselves with such trivialities. Why isn’t Jeb subject to the same barriers republicans put up for the poor?” (Comment by Stephen)
“If you’re a rich white person in America, committing a felony is a “mistake”.
If you’re a poor brown person, you go to jail.
Let’s see how willing Jeb Bush is to “accept responsibility” on this. After all, Republicans are so serious about “accepting responsibility”, aren’t they?” (Comment by John T)