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Fight over felon voting rights heads back to federal court


Fight over felon voting rights heads back to federal court
Jake Stofan, Tallahassee correspondent
Elbert P. Tuttle Courthouse in Atlanta (Photo courtesy: United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit)
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – The fight to allow felons who are too poor to pay their court-ordered fines and fees continued Thursday in an Atlanta appellate court.
The Southern Poverty Law Center, which advocates for the disadvantaged, is pushing a novel argument that Florida’s financial requirements disproportionately impact women of color and therefore violate the 19th Amendment.
Last September, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Florida’s requirement that felons must pay all fines, fees and restitution before their voting rights are restored. The court ruled the financial obligations were a punishment for a crime, not a tax. ....

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