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mr_lebowski

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4. Yeah I thought I heard something about that a month or so back ...

Reply to csziggy (Reply #3)

Sun Oct 25, 2020, 11:47 AM

Oct 2020

Not sure whether he kicked in his own money or not (Snopes says he 'raised' the $16M).

It's great that he did that but I think there's a lot more that 30K or so people being denied their vote for owing fines and such, which is apparently all that got covered.

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Florida voting rights group faced threats from white supremacists after Republicans' call for [View all] TexasTowelie Oct 2020 OP

Don't they realize that it could be them iemitsu Oct 2020 #1

This would've been a great use of Bloomberg's billion$ ... been saying that mr_lebowski Oct 2020 #2

Bloomberg paid fines for about 31,000 returning citizens csziggy Oct 2020 #3

Yeah I thought I heard something about that a month or so back ... mr_lebowski Oct 2020 #4

From articles I read the 31,000 were the ones who registered before the deadline csziggy Oct 2020 #5