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A Quarter of Florida's Black Citizens Can't Vote. A New Referendum Could Change That.
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of The Intercept
Posted: December 25th, 2016
https://theintercept.com/2016/12/22/a-quarter-of-floridas-bl...
By far the most populous of the three states that strip lifelong voting rights from people with felony convictions, Florida is home to some 1.5 million residents who can never again cast a ballot unless pardoned by the states governor. Floridas legions of disenfranchised voters are disproportionately Democrat-leaning minorities - including nearly a quarter of Floridas black population - numbers that advocates say amount to a long-standing and often ignored civil rights catastrophe. This ... mass disenfranchisement could have changed the outcome of some particularly important elections. Recently, after the states ... governor clamped down on the ability of ex-felons to have their rights restored, Donald Trump won the crucial swing state by a margin less than a tenth the size of the states disenfranchised population, leading some to question the effect that felony disenfranchisement may have had on the size of Trumps Electoral College win. National groups, including the Democratic Party, have shown little interest in placing real resources behind recent efforts to roll back the countrys most impactful voting restriction. Yet in recent weeks, even without any significant organizational backing, a coalition composed largely of disenfranchised Floridians quietly reached a new landmark in a long and laborious fight to overturn the states law. On Monday ... Floridas high court announced it had set a March date to consider the proposal to allow a referendum on the 2018 ballot asking voters to roll back the states felony voting restriction.
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