How Many Felons Register To Vote In Florida

In july the state estimated about 85 000 felons had registered to vote.

How many felons register to vote in florida. Ex felons are facing new hurdles when registering to vote in florida. While there are over 21 million floridians over 7 of them are former felons there are only 13 million registered voters in florida according to recent data. By tyler kendall september 1 2020 7 20 am cbs news. In all more than 1 1 million floridians are unable to vote because they have felony convictions or owe court debts making florida the nation s disenfranchisement leader the report states. In total they found about 19 500 felons whose rights were restored under crist voted in 2016 about 58 percent were registered democrats largely black 24 percent were registered republicans.

Overall both the times herald propublica and georgetown analyses found that fewer than 8 percent of florida s felons have registered to vote since amendment 4 passed. But the euphoria was short lived. Group says 67 000 florida felons registered to vote in nov. If all 1 4 million eligible former felons registered to vote they would make up roughly 10 of the voting population in the state. Several months later after a reported 12 600 felons registered mostly as democrats florida s republican legislature passed a law called sb7066 to clarify the.

3 election the florida rights restoration coalition says it saw a surge in registrations in the last two months.