EDITORIAL: Let Florida’s ex-cons vote: The swing state needs to give felons who’ve done their time the right to cast ballots again
The people of the nation's third-most-populous state (dammit, they just nudged
In 1868,
The date is no coincidence; it was one of many post-Civil-War steps taken by Southern states to enable whites to retain their hold on political power.
Over the generations, almost all other states have come to their senses, asserting the basic principle that just because you altered a lottery ticket, poached an alligator, committed insurance fraud or even were caught in possession of cocaine doesn't mean you forever forfeit your central right as a citizen.
(In some states, murderers and felony sex criminals can never get back the right to vote, and they wouldn't in
Instead, in the four laggard states, the only way for a former felon to get back the right to vote is for the governor to grant it, through individual acts of executive clemency.
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