⁍ One of a growing number of Americans with felony convictions who regained the right to vote.

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⁍ The number of Americans unable to vote because of a felony conviction has declined.

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⁍ Felony convictions still disenfranchise about 5.2 million Americans.

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– About 5.2 million Americans with felony convictions will be able to vote in Tuesday’s election. That’s down 15% since 2016, according to the Sentencing Project, which advocates for criminal justice reform. Reuters takes a look at some of the hurdles those with felony convictions may face in voting for the first time in nearly 40 years. About 1.4 million people with felony convictions in Florida had their right to vote restored in January of this year after the state amended it constitution. But the state required them to pay off restitution, fines, and other costs associated with their sentence. The 11th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in September that the law did not amount to an unconstitutional poll tax. But figuring out how much is owed can be tricky because of confusing and sometimes poor record keeping. Alfonzo Tucker, 53, of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, left prison in 1996 after serving a two-year sentence for assault and voted until he was told in 2013 he was ineligible unless he settled a $135 fee. After he paid that, he said state officials told him he owed thousands of dollars more for a fee associated with a 1988 misdemeanor. “They tell you that you owe $5,000 or $10,000 and that you have to have this case paid off and that case paid off. And that’s not the case. I’m a prime example,” Tucker says. “It’s a problem if people have not questioned what their status is.”