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

Rick Scott is a convicted CHRISTIAN criminal who other Christians chose to govern

Rick Scott is a Dick!

W.T.F
how is this being allowed to happen in a so called democratic an civilized society!
It's fucking unbelievable!!

Feliny disenfranchisement WHITE AMERICAN BULLSHIT! just a way to hold people back in life.

What a lawless, shithole country.

Even people with completely clear records are still stupid as heck, so... We're screwed?

Rick Scott is such a piece of shit. What a terrible human

In Norway, voting is done in prisons, because every adult citizen have the right to vote; which is how it should be in a democracy

A federal felony is essentially a life sentence. You can't vote, can't every own a gun, can't hold any kind of professional license. Getting a job is next to impossible and employers can and will treat you like shit with no consequences.

I never hear ex-felons complaining about their right to jury duty.

RICKY SCOTT ZIOMAFIA TERRORIST OLIGARCHY ASSHOLE

Knew someone that suffered from the ZIOMAFIA TERRORIST propaganda untill her family member was locked up for a crime he didn't commit. Luckily after 4months in prison he was released after the accuser said he didn't rape her!! FUCKED UP OLIGARCHY PROFITEERING

John oliver fucking rocks!!! ive had my rights taken and cant afford to (buy) them back!!!!

"This is a court of Mercy"?
Yes, Prison is Mercy!
not like we are twisting first time felons into gangs

THANK U AGAIN MR. JOHN OLIVER, YOU HAVE DONE A FAN-FRICKEN-TASTIC JOB, on a VERY IMPORTANT ISSUE. BTW, Trump LOST the popular vote by 3 million. If those 6.1 MILLION DISENFRANCHISED VOTERS (probably mostly Democrat, because THAT's how #GOPNAZIS ROLL, w/their goddamn CAGING LISTS etc etc -) the Electoral College might not have been able to STEAL THE 2016 election & give it to a goddamn NAZI like Trump. THIS ISSUE IS CRITICAL. IT IS CONNECTED INEXTRICABLY w/ELECTION SECURITY. I am of the FIRM BELIEF & 'CONVICTION' (scuse the pun! ) that FELONY DISENFRANCHISEMENT IS A FORM OF CRUEL & UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT. In fact, this is one of my MAIN ISSUES AS A CANDIDATE FOR ARIZONA GOVERNOR 2022. On my FIRST DAY, I will PARDON & EXPUNGE MJ OFFENSES. My SECOND DAY, I'll RE-ENFRANCHISE ALL AZ VOTERS... EVEN GOP FELONS !!! Yer WELCOME, AMERIKKKA!
PS: I'm calling on ALL GOOD PEOPLE, OF BOTH PARTIES TO #RUNWITHME !!! RUN 4 OFFICE & TAKE BACK THIS COUNTRY!! #Trista4Sheriff2020
PS WHO BETTER TO VOTE THAN PEOPLE WHO HAVE SEEN HOW THE CRIMINAL INJUSTICE SYSTEM WORKS - OR DOESn'T WORK, actually--, FROM THE INSIDE !!!!

i don't think the federal government should be able to take away people's gun rights , or voting rights , Martha Steward is a felon , i think they should be punished on a case by case basis , if you rob a store with a gun , then you should loose your gun rights , much like a drunk drive looses his license , i love how people pick and choose when federal laws should be applied !

As a Canadian, I feel most of your criminal justice system is racially biased and politically motivated.

Florida sometimes seems like a real world GTA Online server

“Except murderers and sex offenders” no, I don’t except that. Bill Clinton still gets to vote, all sex offenders should get to vote after they finish their sentence. Same w/ murderers, why not? It is wrong to take away their right to vote, it is wrong to subject them to taxation without representation.

So you give the government your money but can't exercise your rights to have some say over the composition of the government? They spend your money, you have to give it, you have no say over any of it.......seems highly reminiscent of theft......
That said, if I were in the position of having to go before that shithead "mercy" panel, I'd invest a huge amount of time and effort into digging as deeply and severely in to each of their personal lives and backgrounds as possible, just in case we get to nitpicking over bullshit :D

How quickly they change.. give him a green card and within a few years he's doing a bad British accent as a joke... even though he already had a different bad British accent anyway. Pffft. John Oliver Jnr III.

"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.

I'm from europe... one question... why on earth should people who cimmited a crime should not be allowed to vote? Imagine a country where you go to jail due to rules of society. And after being punished you cant even vote people who oppose the law u went to jail for. Voting... so changing society and politics is a right. If you take it away from people too easily you rather piss them off completely i would say. If you forogt to do your homework and the teacher puts the in the corner of shame for the rest of the year... hm... u will learn what justice means for sure...
...greatest country in the world? Try to think positive about people, also about people who did mistakes. You need to view people with love. But so many things in america are so cold hearted. Let people vote! Whats wrong with you? Are you scared that their political believe harm you? Then u have lost all faith in a democracy!

Anything mitch the bitch is for, by default must be wrong. He is the epitomy of old idiot scum, moscow mitch must be removed. All the idiots should be removed, yet we have plenty of idiots voting them in,so yeah, we are screwed.

It's not racism that one out of five black people can't vote in Florida because they aren't stopped from voting because they are black but because they did something a white person would get stopped from voting for, too.

Anyone who has to pay taxes should have the chance to vote.

Fuckin white racists

How does Scott have time to run a panel? Shouldn't he have been running the state of Florida? He should appoint independent panel members, or better yet, create a law which gives certain felons their voting rights back after they serve their sentence.

The murderous otters aren't just a Florida thing. They are carnivores and they are very territorial. The ones from Florida just have the extra incentive of wanting to keep you away from their meth.

"ya'll here go to church?"

Democrats won't recognise a vote unless they win. They will call the people and system evil. They will buy out the media, skew the issues. Kick people off social media. Claim that everything they do is for the good of humanity and do whatever to achieve their ends.

Governor Scott gives the impression of being an intolerant, undemocratic vengeful shit. But that is just an impression of course.

To show how far the USA and Europe have drifted apart in terms of basic human rights: All European Prisoners can (or at least should be able to) vote while still in prison. There was a case recently where the UK had to pay a fine and apply for special dispensation because British prisoners were not allowed to vote from prison. Basically because there is no postal vote in the UK and it was too difficult to set up voting booths in prisons. If you are running a democracy you want everyone in your society to vote regardless of who they are. Even catholic priests can vote!

yes!! now they can vote to get their gun rights back! ALL THE GUN RIGHTS FOR EX FELONS

Did Florida ever pass that amendment?

I bet he believes in the geutine

What a frustrating process.

It’s so sad that this only has 4.5 million views. Most other clips have at least double that.

I refuse to vote because votes dont elect anyone and I don't want jury duty

At first i thought John Oliver was a journalist, then i found out he started as a comedian. Glad to see how people evolve in life, but some people should leave the past in the past - i mean, as for his slapstick humour, not for his irreverence.

video = about florida
me = lives in florida
video = is about me B3

Scott is no longer Governor. The two Governors before him granted clemency to over 200K individuals.

SHE lifes them.
Everyone is Her the church.
and shes sabotages.

Funny how USA is seen as the most 'free' country and one of the most democratic countries in the world when a lot of their citizens can't even vote and they generally only have 2 political parties, one of which has been so financially motivated (Republicans) it is not hard to find scandals involving them. Plus, Nixon then Trump, and all the controversy regarding electoral college. A 'democratic' process indeed.
Now I'm wondering why some history books state USA as a leading example of democracy while criticising any other governmental systems. Ah... the books I have read are from Pearson. Now I know why.

drug felony conviction in its nature is violent. most shootings in Chicago are because of drugs, in drug ridden communities

Florida passed the amendment, but also voted in a bunch of shitty of Republicans who unsurprisingly put it behind a massive pay wall. Those of us who live down here and somehow manage to have a conscious know better than to waste any hope on the racist, morally corrupt people that run Florida politics. Assholes got old people to vote out Bill Nelson, an actual old person that has been to space, for Rick Scott, Weekly World News's Bat Boy who grew up, committed Medicare fraud, threw his accomplices under the bus and walked away with millions. Fuck these people, they don't deserve manatees anyway.

Your rights are Inalienable and cannot be controlled by a government.

You also can't rent apartments or a house in Texas in a lot of cases for 7 years...so how do you rebuild your life without a place to live. And good luck finding a job as well...Bgood

Felons can run for president of the United States from jail, from bloody JAIL, but they can not vote even after they are out.

The Clemency Board in Florida acts like your typical show trial in Stalinist Russia.

Your elitism and ethical superiority complex do so ever irritate a lot of viewers. It brings us great pleasure to see your fascade of "we're the mainstream, anyone who doesn't agree with us is an outlier" come tumbling down during watershed events like the 2016 election. Your stranglehold on the American population is weakening as more and more people are waking up to the truth behind the lies and propaganda you've been excreting into the world of digital media. You can cite all the bullshit studies you want to try and convince people that Trump only won because of biased voting regulations, but it doesn't change the fact that you're desperately grasping at straws to retain control and influence over the American population which is steadly becoming dissolutioned with the filfth you've been contaminating their minds with ever since the initial conception of the sewer-based clown convention known as "Last Week Tonight" Why don't you come out and say it, the reason you're talking about this is because you know that if you succeed in significantly relaxing the voter laws as well as in your efforts to keep these border hoppers in the country than all these undocumented immigrants with phony IDs and convicted felons will provide a huge boost to the blue votes in 2020. You aren't being so ferocious on this issue because of ethics, you're doing it to gain power.

I was thinking she looked more like a Burkes Stevie Nicks.

Crimes shouldn't follow you around forever. They do this on purpose to make you a second class citizen for life even after doing you time and being an upstanding citizen.

Is everyone just gonna ignore the fact that apparently 10% of Florida's Adult population are convicted felons?

American legal system: We’ll show you a thing or two!

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.

If you've done all your time and move out of Florida, can you vote in your new state?

This is embarrassing, I thought this is for 3rd world.

A big chunk of the American people are utter shit lords.

Florida apparenty has a inquisition styled 'clemency' board based on 'beliefs' but it doesn't have 'standards', well that's just plumbcrazy. Can I have my nuts now?