I'll ask the mods to lock my thread. Just want to bring these numbers from the article over here, if you don't mind.
a backlog of 30,000
95% denied
process can take several years
500,000 people and another article from the Orlando Sentinel:
"Courtenay Strickland, director of the ACLU's voting-rights project, said
Florida is one of just six states that does not automatically restore rights after sentences are served. She calls it a state "civil-rights crisis."
"It's pretty shocking," Strickland said in a phone interview. "The bottom line is Florida spends a lot of money and puts people through a lot of effort in a process most states find unnecessary."
Sentinel article on workshops
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