He’s a convicted felon, right? And that means he isn’t eligible to vote, right? So he didn’t/couldn’t vote, right?

  • Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.worldEnglish
    45·
    9 days ago

    Florida allows felons to vote if the state the felony conviction occurred in allows felons to vote. New York allows felons to vote, thus Florida allows him to vote.

  • SoupBrick@yiffit.net
    283·
    9 days ago

    Who was going to stop him. He got away with inciting Jan 6th. What are they going to do?

  • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
    231·
    9 days ago

    Say what you want about trump, but I think felons should be able to vote no matter what. I even think people should be able to vote from prison.

    • Winged_Hussar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      9 days ago

      While Florida generally makes it challenging for people in the state with felony convictions to regain their voting rights, former President Donald Trump had no issue casting a ballot for himself Tuesday in Palm Beach.

      …

      Under Florida law, if a voter has an out-of-state conviction, Florida will defer to that state’s laws for how a felon can regain his or her voting rights. Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris.

      For Trump, that means he will benefit from a 2021 New York law that allows people with felony convictions to vote as long as they’re not serving a term of incarceration at the time of the election.

    • solrize@lemmy.world
      6·
      9 days ago

      Florida isn’t one of those states though, but on the other hand Trump’s felonies are from NY and are under appeal. So OP’s question is interesting.

  • Chris@feddit.ukEnglish
    3·
    9 days ago

    I even heard on the news unbidden that he had voted. I wonder who he voted for?

  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
    22·
    9 days ago

    he voted in palm Beach because he hasn’t been sentenced yet.

    after he gets sentenced, he’ll be ineligible to vote.

    • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      9 days ago

      Florida follows the laws of the state where he was convicted so he would only be unable to vote while incarcerated, which won’t happen because he is never punished for anything.

      • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
        11·
        9 days ago

        I know, that’s the law I was referring to from New York.

        he can vote until he gets sentenced.

        he had to pay $100 million.

        which is not nothing.