A committee of the Florida House of Representatives voted along party lines to advance a bill that could bar from the ballot box many of the estimated 1.5 million convicted felons who just regained the franchise.
“It’s hard for me to say what the legislature’s intent is,” said Julie Ebenstein, a senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union’s Voting Rights Project, “but what I can say is it’s clear what the effects of all this will be, and who will be most deeply affected because of the relationship between race and income, race and policing,Grant and other lawmakers who back the bill have said they are simply doing their jobs, putting much needed detail on the bones of what the voters...
At the time, the laws stripped about 3.9 million U.S. citizens of the vote and a full 13 percent of all black men, the study found. Like Florida, most of the states that permanently disenfranchised felons were in the South and decided to do so just after the Civil War. Several disenfranchised those convicted of specific crimes — those that lawmakers claimed were more likely to be committed by black Americans, such as rape and theft.
“I don’t mean that to be critical," he said."The Amendment 4 folks accomplished something great, a massive thing. But there are dangers in the second-chance argument when we have a criminal justice system which, when it comes to race, is fundamentally unfair.” “I think the incredible thing about Amendment 4 was that it was not run as a partisan campaign and they did not, honestly, even focus on racial disparities,” said Michael Morse, a political scientist and law student who studies felon disenfranchisement.
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