Florida’s Election Shows the True Promise of Restoring Voting Rights
Thanks to Amendment 4, more than one million people intimately affected by the criminal justice system became more empowered to shape it.
In one of Tuesday’s most-watched races, Democratic candidate Andrew Gillum lost a bid to become Florida’s first black governor by less than 100,000 votes. In the same state, incumbent Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson lost his re-election bid by a narrower count.
Yet more than 60 percent of Florida voters approved a constitutional amendment to transform one of the nation’s harshest state felony disenfranchisement schemes, restoring the vote to many of its 1.4 million
