Desmond Meade, who lives in Orlando, is president of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition and chairman of Floridians for a Fair Democracy. He is leading an effort to get a question placed on the 2018 ballot to restore voting rights to certain felons after they have completed their sentences.
Desmond Meade
"You could lose your rights for life over something as simple as driving with a suspended license" in Florida.
Of the approximately 6 million disenfranchised felons in the United States, "one-quarter are Floridians."