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Desmond Meade, who lives in Orlando, is president of the Florida Rights Restoration Coalition and chairman of Floridians for a Fair Democracy. He is leading an effort to get a question placed on the 2018 ballot to restore voting rights to certain felons after they have completed their sentences.
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