Amendment 4, Voting Rights Restoration for Felons Initiative passed with 63% of the vote on Tuesday, Nov. 6th. Florida was one of four state permanently denying voting rights of convicted felons. The victory means more than 1 million people will regain the right to vote.

UFF-UCF President Scott Launier is a producer of “Let My People Vote” a documentary following Desmond Meade as he leads the largest voting rights movement in America since the work of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King. 

Desmond has repaid his debt to society for a drug conviction over a decade ago. Desmond has earned a Juris Doctor degree since parole and Desmond still can’t vote, and is barred from practicing law in the state of Florida.

The amendment was officially supported by Desmond’s Floridians for a Fair Democracy, which gathered more than 1.1 million petitions to put it on the ballot.