Number 25, Dorothy Cab, Buckner, and she is here.

It's 2011 in a hearing room inside the Florida State Capitol.

Brown walls, fluorescent lights, and if the front of the room is Rick Scott, the governor

of Florida.

Good morning.

There's also Pam Bondy, the Attorney General, and there's the Agricultural Commissioner

and the Chief Financial Officer.

Standing in front of them is a woman named Dorothy Cab, Buckner.

She's driven seven hours to get here to tell this board that a long time ago she made

a mistake.

I got involved into a bad life with criminal activity.

In 1993, Dorothy introduced one woman to another woman whose old drugs, the buyer got caught

and Dorothy pleaded guilty to federal drug charges.

She did 18 months in prison several years probation and started a new life.

Became a home health care worker, opened an ice cream parlor.

And I'm here to say that I'm Jewish, I'm a born and good Christian.

I'll be 66 years old on my birthday.

Florida is the only state that has hearings like this.

And they are part of a process that goes all the way back to the time of Jim Crow.

Because in Florida, if you're convicted of a felony, any felony, you lose the right

to vote for life, even after you do your time.

And the only way to get the right to vote back is to ask the governor and members of his

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