3-15-17 Florida:
Seven convicted felons on Monday filed suit [complaint, PDF] alleging Florida's process of restoring voting rights to felons is unconstitutionally arbitrary. The complaint, filed in the US District Court for the Northern District of Florida by the Fair Elections Legal Network [advocacy website] and the Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC [firmwebsite] on behalf of the seven plaintiffs, seeks to restore voting rights for ex-felons and eliminate the current process.
Florida, Kentucky, Iowa and Virginia are the only states that require former felons to petition to public officials for the restoration of their voting rights. According the the complaint, there is no timetable required under the current law for a judgment on an ex-felon's petition, and the 10,513 pending applications have created a significant backlog for the review board.
"On September 1, 2016, this figure was 10,588. The backlog has only decreased by 75 pending applications in six months, demonstrating that the current system has both caused Florida's disenfranchised population to grow to 1.68 million and is utterly unsuited to addressing the ever-worsening problem." ..Continue.. by Jurist
March 15, 2017
Florida ex-felons file class action suit over voting laws
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