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Thanks for visiting. On a semi-daily basis we scan Florida's major daily newspapers for significant Florida political news and punditry. We also review the editorial pages and political columnists/pundits for Florida political commentary. The papers we review include: the Miami Herald, Sun-Sentinel, Palm Beach Post, Naples News, Sarasota Herald Tribune, St Pete Times, Tampa Tribune, Orlando Sentinel, the Daytona Beach News-Journal, Tallahassee Democrat, and, occasionally, the Florida Times Union; we also review the political news blogs associated with these newspapers.

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Not that we don't provide spin; we do, and plenty of it. Our perspective appears in post headlines, the subtitles within the post (in bold), and the excerpts from the linked stories we select to quote; we also occasionally provide other links and commentary about certain stories. While our bias should be immediately apparent to any reader, we nevertheless attempt to link to every article, column or editorial about Florida politics in every major online Florida newspaper.

 

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The Blog for Wednesday, January 26, 2005

Restoring the Right to Vote

    Rather than automatically restore rights, "Jeb!" sidesteps the issue: "Bush wants to increase parole panel":
    "In the short term, we're certainly glad that the governor is asking for funds to deal with the backlog. But in the long term, you have to ask why Florida is spending money on a process that most states find completely unnecessary," said Courtenay Strickland, coordinator of voting rights for the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, which successfully challenged the Department of Corrections clemency process in a class action lawsuit settled last year. "If you provide for automatic restoration of voting rights after completion of the sentence, then all of this becomes unnecessary."

    The Committee to Restore Voter Integrity, a group headed by Sen. Mandy Dawson, D-Fort Lauderdale, has begun to gather signatures to get a constitutional amendment on the ballot in 2006 allowing voters to decide if felons should have their rights automatically restored once their sentence is complete.
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