NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund: Federal Appeals Court Blocks Florida Law That Undermines Voting Rights Restoration
February 20, 2020
February 20, 2020
NEW YORK, Feb. 20 -- The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund issued the following news release:
A federal appeals court upheld a ruling blocking a Florida law that created wealth-based hurdles to voting and significantly curtailed Florida's Voting Restoration Amendment, also known as Amendment 4, which sought to end lifetime disenfranchisement and automatically restore voting rights to 1.4 million Floridians.
The law would have disenfranchised hundreds of thousands . . .
A federal appeals court upheld a ruling blocking a Florida law that created wealth-based hurdles to voting and significantly curtailed Florida's Voting Restoration Amendment, also known as Amendment 4, which sought to end lifetime disenfranchisement and automatically restore voting rights to 1.4 million Floridians.
The law would have disenfranchised hundreds of thousands . . .