A federal court will begin hearing a case on Monday that could decide whether hundreds of thousands of newly enfranchised felons in the key swing state of Florida will be able to vote in November's election.
WASHINGTON - A federal court will begin hearing a case on Monday that could decide whether hundreds of thousands of newly enfranchised felons in the key swing state of Florida will be able to vote in November’s election.
Moreover, Florida has no consolidated system for determining what felons owe or certifying that they have paid up, felons and voting rights groups say, making it virtually impossible for ex-offenders to prove they are eligible to vote. Florida is the biggest prize among electoral swing states with 29 Electoral College votes. Trump won the state by 113,000 votes in his victorious 2016 election, or 1.2 percentage points, but recent polls show Biden with a slim margin in Florida, gaining ground among older voters who make up a large chunk of the state’s electorate.
“We see this fight by the state of Florida...as an attempt at massive voter suppression,” said Patricia Brigham, president of the League of Women Voters of Florida, one of several voting rights and racial justice groups involved in the lawsuit.On April 17, just over a week before the start of the trial, the state filed documents that set out a procedure for determine how much a felon owes.
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