Felony Disenfranchisement: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

The "Fish Love" Jeopardy answer was actually "Wish list". I can finally rest in peace.

Good news everybody, Florida passed the amendment and 1.4 million felons can now vote again!

This story has a happy ending! It passed! 64% Way to go Florida!

WE DID IT! FLORIDA DID IT! 1.4 MILLION PEOPLE IN FLORIDA CAN VOTE AGAIN! GREAT JOB, EVERYONE!

I find it braindead that to legally gain your voting rights back you have to appear before a board that does not work with the legal system.

"Do you go to church?" Seriously? If that's illegal to ask that at a job interview, it should be just as illegal in that situation.

The amendment just got passed

My punishment was 5 years of my life in prison for growing marijuana. MARIJUANA FOR FUCK SAKE. I payed my debt with the time I served. I'm square with the house. Give me my rights.

"Uh so why won't you allow me to vote even though I'm doing everything right?" "lol i just dun feel like it" the epitome of apathy and selfishness in American politics

Is it not weird to anybody else that a Governor is responsible for deciding who can and cannot vote, especially when that decision is based on his own personal opinion.

"do you go to church?" is this Salem?

When that one guy said "people need to learn actions have consequences", my immediate thought was "yes and the consequences are imprisonment." They served their time. I thought prison was supposed to be about rehabilitation. It's like if you got put in time out at school, thought about what you did wrong, and after timeout you were told you could no longer use crayons, or something equally impactful, for the rest of your life.

I am not even american, and yet i knew the minute he said "just one state" that it was going to be Florida.

"I am refusing your civil rights" is one thing a person in power should NEVER EVER SAY.

"Where do y'all go to church. Do you go to church?" "All due respect, sir, but that question is innapropriate: no branch of government and no government official have any authority or business regarding my personal spiritual beliefs or expression. You cannot deny my rights over where I go to church, how often, or if I go at all." Granted, 100% he would deny my petition outright for talking to him that way, but non-Christians are fucking citizens too and he needs to hear it.

“A TJ Max Janis Joplin”. CLASSIC!!!

This panel sounds super illegal to me.

I'm from Texas, and I've been helping people register to vote as a part of a petition drive in my city. Texas is actually one of the states that automatically grants voting rights back to felons after their time serving is completed. So many people I've talked to had no idea they could ever vote because they assumed their voting rights were gone forever due to past felonies. I know people in their 60s and older who were convicted of felonies when they were teens who just recently learned they are actually eligible to register to vote.

From Australia, congratulations, Florida, on your midterm results, and on the chance this story had something to do with the results, well done John. Keep doing what you’re doing.

A politician asking wether you attend church when church and state are separated? How does this work again?