Breaking: Florida passes Amendment 4 to restore voting rights to 1.4 million ex-felons with 64% support. Largest enfranchisement of new voters since Voting Rights Act. This is a game changer for voting rights
Passage of Amendment 4 in Florida one of biggest victories for voting rights in decades. Right now Florida prevents 1 in 10 people from voting, including 1 in 5 African Americans. Repealing one of country's worst Jim Crow laws HUGE NEWS for democracy motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
While Republicans making it harder to vote nationwide, a majority of Republicans supported restoring voting rights to 1.4 million people in Florida. "We’re challenging the notion that only certain people care about voting rights” @fshakir of @ACLU told me motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
I've been covering voting rights since 2011 & passage of Amendment 4 single biggest victory since then. Restoring voting rights to 1.4 million people is game changer for voting rights & criminal justice reform & will transform Florida's political map motherjones.com/politics/2018/… 
Andrew Gillum would've been elected Florida's first black governor if Amendment 4 had been in effect before 2018. 500,000 African Americans lost right to vote because of felon disenfranchisement law
