On voting, Florida no friend to ex-felons.

It’s already undeniable that Florida has extremist policies when it comes to denying citizens the right to vote.

Our state is one of only three that bars many people convicted of a felony from voting — for the rest of their lives — unless they get personal permission from the governor and Cabinet.

It’s a right rarely granted. Once, Gov. Rick Scott only voted to restore voting rights to a former felon after the offender told the governor that he had previously voted for Scott.

This vote-denying policy — backed by Scott and Attorney General Pam Bondi and with a waiting period that often lasts a decade — is a throwback to the 1800s when white politicians were worried the state would become too “niggerized” if freed black slaves had equal rights, as cited by the Brennan Center for Justice.

And it has been long decried by civil-rights advocates and Democrats, with conservatives — including columnist George Will and former Senate President Don Gaetz — now also calling the policy flawed and unfair.

It’s also, as it turns out, unconstitutional.

So said a federal judge in a scathing ruling a few weeks ago that called the state’s vote-denying “scheme” arbitrary, political and “nonsensical.”

"Florida strips the right to vote from every man and woman who commits a felony," ruled Judge Mark Walker. "To vote again, disenfranchised citizens must kowtow before a panel of high-level government officials …. No standards guide the panel … The question now is whether such a system passes constitutional muster. It does not."

He was quite clear. And before anyone starts crying “judicial activism” — a popular argument for whiners when a verdict doesn’t go their way — know that Judge Walker earned bipartisan support and has sided with Scott in the past. The judge was put on the federal bench with a 96-0 vote in the U.S. Senate. And he once sided with Scott’s education department in ruling against the state’s teacher’s union in a battle over teacher pay.

Still, despite widespread criticism and Walker’s ruling, Scott and Bondi are fighting to keep their extremist policy in place.

These two rarely miss an opportunity to make the wrong decision on civil rights.

Whether it is gay marriage or voting rights, they routinely treat the U.S. Constitution like toilet paper — and use your tax dollars to fight their legal battles.

Equally galling, though, may be their alleged reason for doing so — that they claim they are standing with victims. Since when? Bondi sure didn’t stand with

victims who said they were scammed out of money by Trump University. Instead of pursing their claims, she took a pass — and $25,000 in campaign money from Donald Trump. Florida victims

were forced to seek help from an attorney general 1,000 miles away in New York — an A.G. who just Monday finalized a $25 million settlement with the “sham university” that operated in Florida as well. Nor did Bondi stand with victims when she ousted two of her own department’s top foreclosure-fraud investigators after the industry they were investigating started complaining. And Scott sure didn’t stand with victims when the company he was running committed one of the biggest thefts of tax dollars in American history, according to federal investigators who netted a $1.7 billion Medicare-fraud settlement with Columbia/HCA.

The victims there were American taxpayers. And Scott didn’t stand with them. After the investigation began, he resigned with a $300 million parachute.

So spare us the indignation about fighting for victims.

Keep in mind, Florida’s anti-voting law is so broad, it can mean a lifetime ban for people who once got into a bar fight or possessed a single pot plant. I followed the journey of an Air Force veteran who lost his right to vote for more than three decades, stemming back to charges associated with $162 worth of bum checks he wrote in 1982.

Civil rights should be subject to rules, not political whims.

And if you’re really worried about justice, know that recidivism drops once former felons have their rights restored and are re-integrated into society. So said a study from the state’s own Parole Commission.

The current policy isn’t about justice. It’s about politics and pandering.

Florida voters will get a chance to fix all this with a constitutional amendment this fall that would automatically restore civil rights to those who serve all their sentences, including probation and paying restitution, except for those convicted of sex crimes or murder.

Scott and Bondi should do as the judge ordered and start fixing the system. But the odds are long as they continue to be on the wrong side of history, equal justice and the U.S. Constitution.