This is repugnant. AG Moody should be ashamed. In addition to not being what the laws cited (AG letter is in the story) are meant to regulate (corrupt payments for votes), the theory this assumes flies in the face of the argument the state made in Jones. 1/ https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1308893989806977025

What Bloomberg and others are doing is helping ex felons pay off fines and fees, which makes the ex felons eligible for voting rights restoration. 2/

The claim Moody is making is that payment of fines and fees is done as payment in exchange for voting and registering. But it’s not. It is done to help people complete their sentence - they can register and vote - or not - as they choose. 3/

The requirement to pay fines and fees was not in the Const Amdt but was added by the R legislature. Rs claimed it was simply implementing Const requirement for felons to complete their sentence before voter restoration. 4/

In justifying the added burden created by statute, Rs said the fines and fees were needed to complete the sentence. They were not meant as separate obstacles to voting - that would make them a poll tax. 5/

So to defend their law, Rs argued that fines and fees are part of the sentence, not payments or taxes needed for voting. 6/

But now Moody suggests that when someone helps pay off the fines and fees, they are no longer helping a felon complete their sentence, but instead they are interfering with voting by paying people to register to vote. 7/

But if the payment of fees and fines is a payment so closely tied to voting, then it really does operate as a poll tax. 8/

AG Moody: either the fines and fees requirement for ex felons to vote is a payment for voting and thus a poll tax, or it is a completion of a sentence which 3d parties can assist with. Stop this denial of basic citizen rights through hypocritical legal interpretations.9/

Oh, and what is your position on Florida employers telling employees they will be fired if a dem wins? Would this type of behavior warrant a letter to the state prosecutor? End/ https://money.cnn.com/2012/10/09/news/economy/siegel-email-employees/