The Democratic blue wave did not totally take over Washington, D.C. in the midterm elections like many liberals and progressives had hoped.
But a small ripple in Florida might have the biggest impact on the “Sunshine State” going forward.
The state of Florida voted to restore voting rights for felons, overturning a law that many African-Americans have long believed existed to strip rights away from African-Americans, a group disproportionately imprisoned and often disenfranchised at the voting booth.
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