The Tampa Bay Times and Miami Herald looked at the most recent year of data on citizens who lost their right to vote in the 20 largest counties in the state and found a lot of Democrats. In those counties, which hold more than 80 percent of the
state’s voters, 52 percent of those who lost their voting rights because
of a conviction were Democrats. Only 14 percent of those who lost their
voting rights because of felony convictions were Republicans. The rest
had no partisan affiliation. ... Democrats could see a net gain of several hundred thousand votes from the new amendment.
