Voting Rights in FL
This is great news for Florida:
Gov. Charlie Crist said Monday that he hoped to persuade members of the Florida cabinet this week to end the practice of stripping convicted felons of their right to vote.Florida is the most populous of three states whose constitutions require withdrawal of voting rights from all convicted felons, and it has the nation’s largest number of disenfranchised former offenders.
There are nearly a million Florida residents who would be affected by this change.
“I believe in my heart that everybody deserves a second chance,” Mr. Crist said. “And I’m hopeful that maybe later this week we’ll have an opportunity to restore civil rights for Floridians and give them that right to vote.”
Now he just has to convince one more cabinet member to side with him - Alex Sink, the Democratic chief financial officer, supports lifting the ban. The two Republicans on the cabinet don't.
(via NYT)