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Can he even vote in this election with felonies?
Funny thing:
You can't vote in Florida as a felon.
But: You can vote in Florida if you're a felon in another state, and that crime is not a felony in Florida.
Basically Florida has no laws against... well, just don't ask too many questions...
Basically once he's sentenced he loses his voting rights.
It's not that "the crime isn't a felony in Florida", it's that Florida defaults to the felony-voter rules of the state where the crime was committed.
New York lets felons vote as long as they're not currently incarcerated, so Florida lets him vote.
Not quite.
You can't vote in Florida as a Florida felon. If you are convicted of a felony in another state, your eligibility to vote in Florida depends on the eligibility of felons to vote in the state in which you were convicted.
Trump was convicted of felonies in New York State. New York State allows convicted felons to vote. Therefore, Trump is eligible to vote in Florida.
They allow convicted felons to vote after they served their sentence, or, through this colorful technicality, before they've been sentenced.
I believe so. He resides in Florida, and was convicted in New York. For out of state crimes Florida follows the rules of the convicted state. New York let's felons vote as long as they aren't in jail.
He can't, but he already did.