Florida Reports Progress in Reinfranchising Felons - Eliminates Backlog

• This Has Nothing to do with the Felony Voter Purge of 47,000 people

 Gov. Jeb Bush announced Thursday that Florida had nearly eliminated the backlog of felons seeking to have their voting rights restored and that only 8,000 applications remained under review. ACLU stated, "If the governor and his cabinet members were serious about helping former felons rehabilitate their lives and become productive, taxpaying members of society," Howard Simon, the group's executive director, said in the statement, they would "automatically restore people's rights after they have been released from prison and completed their supervision." [more]