Many people don't think twice about being able to head to the polls on Election Day, but for more than a million and a half Floridians, it's a luxury they no longer have.
Florida's rules on rights of convicted felons keeps more than 10 percent of Florida adults from voting, according to the Sentencing Project, a non-profit agency that pushes for criminal justice reform.
In Florida, convicted felons never regain the right to vote, unless a person applies for clemency, which is a long process in which the state gives people their rights back after 5 years for non-violent offenses.
The Florida Commission on Offender Review has a long waiting list. Nearly 11,000 people have applied but are yet to be approved.
The Sentencing Project discovered 1.6 million people with felony convictions in Florida cannot vote, which is the highest number in the nation. Nationwide, about six-million people cannot vote because of felony convictions.
Many states allow felons to vote once they've finished their sentencing, parole or probation.
