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Links Michigan Governor – Gretchen Whitmer Northpoint Institute of Public Management, now Equivalent Florida Amendment 4, Voting Rights Restoration for Felons Initiative (2018) - ✅ Approved (Ballotpedia) The report [by The Sentencing Project] estimated that, as of 2016, around 6.1 million people, or about 2.5 percent of the U.S. voting age population, were disenfranchised due to a felony conviction. Florida was estimated to have 1,686,318 persons—10.43 percent of the voting age population—disenfranchised due to felonies. The majority of the disenfranchised persons, around 88.23 percent, were estimated to have completed their sentences. Florida had the highest rate of felons disenfranchised in the U.S. in 2016, according to the report. The estimated average rate of felon disenfranchisement across the 50 states was 2.28 percent in 2016. – The Sentencing Project Nation Outside, in Michigan The Center for Community Transitions, in North Carolina Justice Reinvestment Initiative Ron Taylor, Prisons Division of