On March 16, the U.S. House held a hearing on HR 3335, a bill to require the states to let ex-felons register to vote in federal elections. Here is a Florida newspaper story about the hearing, which emphasizes the point that the Supervisor of Elections of Leon County, Florida made. If this bill had been in effect before the 2000 election, thousands of Florida voters who were not permitted to vote, would have been permitted to vote, and the outcome of the presidential election would have almost certainly been different.