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State election officials took suggestions about how to update the process for felons to seek what are known as advisory opinions about their eligibility to vote, with advocates calling for a procedure that provides “certainty” for people who have completed their sentences.
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While many states have been making it easier for those people to vote after serving prison time, Florida and some other states have made it harder.
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Plaintiffs have dropped a federal lawsuit challenging how the state carried out a constitutional amendment that restores voting rights to felons who complete their sentences.
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A federal judge this week rejected part of a challenge to a 2023 Florida elections law that prevents people with certain felony convictions from "collecting or handling" voter-registration applications.
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Plaintiffs are trying to fend off an attempt to end a lawsuit that challenges the way a 2018 constitutional amendment aimed at restoring felons’ voting rights has been carried out.
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The lawsuit was filed in April by the League of Women Voters of Florida and the NAACP against Secretary of State Cord Byrd.
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There's no easy way for Floridians returning from prison to figure out what's needed to regain their voting rights. And advocates are critical of language set to be added to voter registration cards.
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Voting rights groups say Florida’s voter registration form is flawed and it’s leading to people’s arrest. The Florida League of Women Voters and Florida chapter of the NAACP filed suit last week alleging the form violates the National Voter Registration Act.
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Democrats say the legislation would curb voter registration efforts, especially for people of color and felons who have completed their sentences.
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The arrests of the 20 defendants last August targeted people who were convicted of murder or a felony sexual offense and therefore exempt from a constitutional amendment that restores voting rights to some felons.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis made a spectacle of arresting voters with felony convictions. Now, some eligible voters are opting out of midterms even beyond Florida.
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He was one of those arrested under Gov. DeSantis' election integrity initiative who had been convicted of either murder or felony sex assault and therefore ineligible under the new rules.