"Four of the nation’s premier civil rights organizations, the American Civil Liberties Union, Brennan Center for Justice at New York University, the Sentencing Project and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., sent a letter Friday to Florida’s Board of Executive Clemency (“Board”), asking the Board not to further restrict Floridians’ voting rights by requiring every individual with a criminal conviction to apply for restoration of their civil rights after a new waiting period that could be as long as five years. ...
If Florida rolls back its clemency rules, it will be one of only four states left in the country (Kentucky, Virginia and Iowa are the other three) that deny the right to vote to everyone with a felony conviction for life unless they receive clemency from the governor. The Board will meet this Wednesday to decide whether or not to adopt the proposed change of clemency rules."
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