Article: New Florida Rules Return More Than 115,000 Ex-Offenders to Voting Rolls - NYTimes.com

MIAMI - Gov. Charlie Crist announced on Tuesday that 115,232 Florida felons had regained their voting rights since new rules took effect last April, but 80 percent of the state's disenfranchised ex-offenders remain off the rolls. The governor - a Republican who had initially pushed for a broader clemency program - said he was proud of the progress and hoped the number of those regaining voting rights would increase."Once somebody has truly paid their debt to society, we should recognize it, and we should honor it and we should welcome them back into society and give them that second chance," Mr. Crist told a crowd of law enforcement officials and advocates for prisoners' rightsin ...