Mike Tyson will vote for the first time in his life at 54.
This was announced by the former boxing champion himself in a tweet.
"This will be the first time I vote - he wrote -. I never thought I would be able to do it because of my criminal record. I am proud to finally be able to do so".
Tyson had been deprived of the right to vote after being sentenced in 1992 to six years in prison, among other crimes, for rape.
He was released from prison after three years of imprisonment.
In the United States, about six million voters were unable to vote in 2016 due to their criminal record.
Tyson will be able to vote because his state, Nevada, has signed a law that restores the right to vote for convicts upon release from prison by 2019. Tyson did not mention his electoral preferences, it is not clear if he will vote for Donald Trump or Joe Biden. However, in the 2016 elections he supported the current president of the United States. "He should be president of the United States - he said at the time in an interview about Donald Trump -. That's what he should be. Why are people angry with other people? Because this is who they want president ... ". "Let's make America run like a company - he also added - where colors don't matter. Anyone who can do the job gets the job." Trump and Tyson are two old acquaintances. Several times in the 80s the then tycoon had promoted the matches of the former boxing champion.
