Florida Voters - Amendment Four - What's the Biggest Expansion of Democracy?

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Florida's amendment four allowed anyone with a felony conviction to vote if you did not have a felony sex offense on your record. Florida's Republican legislature passed a law to clarify the amendment. It defines all terms of sentence as more than just time served parole and probation. Governor Ron DeSantis signed a bill that will now limit the number of felons who will be allowed to vote in Florida.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has hit on a winning — if possibly unethical — campaign strategy: prosecuting people who accidentally committed voter fraud. The Tampa Bay Times’s Lawrence Mower explains.

This episode was produced by Miles Bryan and Siona Peterous, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with help from Jillian Weinberger, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram, who also edited.

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