America’s largest swing state bars over 1.5 million people from voting because of prior offenses. That could change in NovemberHer hands trembling and tears forming in the corners of her eyes,Sheila Holcomb sat down in a sterile basement of the Florida state capitol building. Before her, perched behind a curved wooden cabinet bench, and sat four members of the state’s executive working their way swiftly through the morning’s agenda of 90 cases.
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Source: theguardian.com