Tag: Voter Disenfranchisement
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Until Everyone Can Vote, We’re Still Not a Democracy. Florida Made it Happen. When Will N.J.?
In the flurry of last month’s election results, one result stood out as particularly exciting: Florida voters passed Ballot Initiative 4, reinstating the right to vote for nearly 1.5 million voters and re-enfranchising nearly twenty percent of Florida’s African American population. Just as importantly, Florida’s referendum highlighted that group-based voter disenfranchisement remains a widespread legalized practice, enshrined in law,…
micah herskind 