![]() ![]() On Tuesday night, when he learned that Amendment 4 had passed, he wrote, in a text message, “I’ve got one of those full, involuntary smiles and a feeling of agency I haven’t felt in nearly 13 years.”įloridians have been fighting felony disenfranchisement since the early two-thousands, when civil-rights groups sued the state, unsuccessfully. ![]() After pleading guilty to first-degree arson and reckless public endangerment in the second degree, he served a year of house arrest and a dozen years of probation. ![]() In 2005, while under the influence of antidepressants and alcohol, he set fire to an empty bar in Wisconsin. Steve Phalen, who is thirty-six and works at an HVAC distribution center in Florida, has not voted since he was a college student. That leaves only two states, Iowa and Kentucky, that place lifelong voting bans on all citizens with felony convictions. Amendment 4 needed sixty per cent to pass and won sixty-four, reflecting bipartisan support in a famously divided state. On Tuesday, an amendment to the Florida constitution restored the voting rights of more than a million people with felony convictions. ![]()
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