Nearly every state imposes restrictions on current and/or former felons casting ballots in elections. It’s a policy with an ugly past, but it continues to linger in contemporary election laws.

It’s also a policy with a renewed relevance in Republican politics: Now that Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, has been convicted of multiple felonies, will he be able to vote or himself in the fall?

This gets a little complicated, but the answer is, “Probably, yes.” An NBC News report explained:

Florida defers to other state laws when it comes to disenfranchising voters who are tried and convicted elsewhere. That means Florida voters like Trump lose their voting rights only if the states where they were convicted would disenfranchise them for the crimes, too. And if the states of their convictions would restore their voting rights, so would Florida, said Blair Bowie, an attorney at the Campaign Legal Center who advocates for the end of felony disenfranchisement.

In New York, where a jury found Trump guilty, criminals cannot vote while behind bars, but convicted felons’ voting rights are restored after they’re freed from detention.

Or put another way, under state law, Trump wouldn’t be able to vote if he were locked up on Nov. 5, but otherwise, his voting rights would be intact.

Of course, there’s still a remote possibility that the former president will be convicted in other jurisdictions between now and Election Day — it’s not likely, of course, though it’s possible — at which point Trump might yet have to contend with Florida-imposed restrictions. My colleague Lisa Rubin flagged this helpful chart on the Sunshine State’s system:

NBC News’ report added that if Trump were to lose his voting rights in Florida, he’d still have some options — including turning to Gov. Ron DeSantis for clemency.

Given that the Republican governor is helping raise money for his former 2024 rival, it’s hardly a stretch to think DeSantis would ensure that Trump could cast a ballot for himself.