Florida Disenfranchises 1.4 Million Citizens Through Felony Voting Bans, Highest Rate in Nation

By 2000, Florida disenfranchises an estimated 1.4 million citizens who have felony convictions—nearly a quarter of all disenfranchised people with felony records in the entire United States. Florida’s lifetime voting ban for people with felony convictions, rooted in post-Civil War efforts to …