Florida leads in denying voting rights to Non-white People

The Sentencing Project 

Reporter Bill Kaczon writes that changes under Republican Gov. Rick Scott have made it more difficult for Floridians with past felony convictions to get their voting rights restored—a situation critics say has suppressed the minority vote and hurt Democratic candidates. Civil liberties activists say Florida's rights restoration rules are the most restrictive in the nation and have the effect, if not the intent, of suppressing the minority vote.  Only 16.5 percent of Floridians are black, yet blacks make up 31.5 percent of the state's prison population, meaning a higher percentage of African-Americans, who tend to support Democrats, don't have the right to vote after completing their sentences.