CBS Miami:  Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday he will sign a controversial measure that would require repayment of financial obligations before felons’ voting rights are restored.“I’ll sign it,” DeSantis said while at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine… Continue reading

538: In a March 2018 poll for HuffPost, YouGov found that 24 percent of U.S. adults supported restoring felons’ voting rights while they are in prison and 58 percent opposed it, including 41 percent who were “strongly” opposed….But the… Continue reading

Politico: The debate over allowing the Boston Marathon bomber to vote started with a man named Rick in Muscatine, Iowa.At a town hall in early April, he reminded Bernie Sanders that prisoners in his home state of Vermont are… Continue reading

Miami Herald: Florida lawmakers say they’ve settled on a way to implement Amendment 4 that requires felons to pay all court fees, fines and restitution before voting, but allows judges to waive those costs or convert them into community… Continue reading

Ariel White for the APSR. Here is the abstract: This paper presents new causal estimates of incarceration’s effect on voting, using administrative data on criminal sentencing and voter turnout. I use the random case assignment process of a major… Continue reading

NYT: The question was stark: Would you support enfranchising incarcerated people like the Boston Marathon bomber or convicted rapists?The answer Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont gave was starker: Yes.“I think the right to vote is inherent to our democracy,” … Continue reading

Michael Morse oped: The Republican-dominated Legislature has tried to hang Amendment 4 by its own advocate’s words. When the campaign went before the state supreme court to qualify for the ballot, it explained to the seven justices that “completion… Continue reading

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Daniel Nichanian: The success of Amendment 4, Florida’s 2018 initiative to expand voting rights, may have boosted efforts to reform felony disenfranchisement nationwide. But Mississippi’s Republican lawmakers were ultimately unmoved. The last of the rights restoration billsthat… Continue reading

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Orlando Sentinel: A bill to be considered Tuesday in a Florida House committee would create new obstacles to restoring ex-felons’ voting rights mandated by Amendment 4, activists said Monday.The House Criminal Justice Committee’s bill is the culmination of months of… Continue reading