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Florida's Amendment 4 Takes Effect Today

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Amendment 4, which allows more than a million ex-felons in Florida to register to vote, takes effect today - but officials are torn. Supporters of the amendment call it self-executing, which means the amendment was written without input or direction from the state legislature. Some state officials, likeGov.-elect Ron DeSantis, disagree. The amendment passed with support from more than two-thirds of Florida voters. Join us as we discuss the amendment’s implementation with one of its strongest advocates,Neil Volz, Political Director for the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition.

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Julie Glenn is the host of Gulf Coast Live. She has been working in southwest Florida as a freelance writer since 2007, most recently as a regular columnist for the Naples Daily News. She began her broadcasting career in 1993 as a reporter/anchor/producer for a local CBS affiliate in Quincy, Illinois. After also working for the NBC affiliate, she decided to move to Parma, Italy where she earned her Master’s degree in communication from the University of Gastronomic Sciences. Her undergraduate degree in Mass Communication is from the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
Mike Kiniry is producer of Gulf Coast Live, and co-creator and host of the WGCU podcast Three Song Stories: Biography Through Music. He first joined the WGCU team in the summer of 2003 as an intern while studying Communication at Florida Gulf Coast University.