There is an application process.
"We can't have just 10 percent of the population deciding who is going to run our city, our state, our country. We have to make sure more people are part of the process, and this is one way."
| A quote from Michael Bowie, president of the Gainesville, Florida, chapter of the NAACP, on a movement to help ex-offenders regain their voting rights in Greg C. Bruno's Gainesville Sun article "NAACP looking to enlist voters"
Also see Coralie Carlson's Associated Press article (via the Miami Herald) "State, civil rights groups reach agreement on felon voting case"
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