Florida: 1,600 ex-felons eligible to vote
/ Florida Division of Elections did an about-face
Wednesday, acknowledging that 1,600 former felons whose voting rights
had been restored should be removed from its list of potentially
ineligible voters. The Herald reported last week that the 1,600 were
among more than 2,100 felons who remained on the state's list even
though they had regained the right to vote. The Department of State --
whose secretary, Glenda Hood, reports to Gov. Jeb Bush -- backtracked
on the issue. [more]
