Can Donald Trump vote in the 2024 election? Here's what you should know

CNN
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While Florida generally makes it difficult for people with felony convictions in the state to regain their right to vote, former President Donald Trump will have no problem casting a vote for himself in Palm Beach today.

Trump was convicted in Manhattan earlier this year of 34 counts of falsifying business records related to pre-election hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels in 2016. Trump, the first former US president to be convicted of a crime, is scheduled to be sentenced on November 26.

Under Florida law, if a voter has an out-of-state conviction, Florida will follow that state's laws in determining how a felon can regain his or her right to vote.

For Trump, that means he will benefit from a 2021 New York law that allows people with felony convictions to vote as long as they are not serving a prison sentence at the time of the election.

For other Floridians with felony convictions, the rules aren't so simple.

A successful 2018 ballot initiative to restore voting rights to those serving their sentences was rejected by the state's Republican lawmakers. They have passed a law requiring the payment of all fines and fees associated with a conviction – a process that can be cumbersome because there is no central system to track these outstanding fees.