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Fun Florida Facts

  • No matter where you are in Florida, you’re never more than 60 miles from the ocean.

 

  • Florida is one of only three states that bans former felons from voting for the rest of their life.

 

  • That policy disenfranchises 1.68 million Floridians, including one out of every five African American adults in the state.

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  • Floridians could vote to automatically give former felons their rights back. But Desmond and Neil need over 700,000 signatures if that’s going to be on the 2018 ballot.

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  • “Florida” is Spanish for “Land of the Flowers”.

Read more at:

Tampa Bay Times

Miami Herald

The New York Times

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