The League of Women Voters, along with the NAACP and the National Congress of Women, held a forum Wednesday [March 18] night at the Cocoa Civic Center to discuss ways to allow felons to get their voting rights back immediately after being released from prison. The league's aim is to gather the 684,000 verified signatures needed by Feb. 1, 2016, to put an amendment on the ballot statewide that will restore felons' voting privileges. Currently, they say that more than 1.5 million citizens in Florida are unable vote due to prior incarceration -- 10% of the voting-age population.
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