What It Felt Like for a Florida Man with a Felony to Regain His Voting Rights [newyorker.com]
On Tuesday, an amendment to the Florida constitution restored the voting rights of more than a million people with felony convictions. Amendment 4 needed sixty per cent to pass and won sixty-four, reflecting bipartisan support in a famously divided state. That leaves only two states, Iowa and Kentucky, that place lifelong voting bans on all citizens with felony convictions. Steve Phalen, who is thirty-six and works at an hvac distribution center in Florida, has not voted since he was a...