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Group Helps Ex-Felons Get Rights Restored

Tallahassee, FL – The Florida Rights Restoration Coalition with the ACLU of Florida and People for the American Way Foundation or PFAW launched a campaign.

We hope to inform ex-offenders in facilitating their re-enfranchisement www.restoremyvote.org .ex-offenders can call'

PFAW Florida Legal Counsel Reggie Mitchell.
The coalition is also proposing a plan to the governor. It would require the Office of Executive Clemency to include voter registration applications with the certificates of clemency sent to citizens with newly restored civil rights. For WFSU-FM, I'm Lynn Hatter.