Restrictions affecting felon voting rights could block thousands from casting ballots, potentially altering Florida's outcome in the presidential race, a Wall Street Journal analysis shows
saying before they could cast a ballot, those people with felony records had to first pay all fees, fines and restitution related to their sentences. They could also seek to get a court to dismiss the debt or convert it to community service.
New data from researchers at Georgetown University Law Center shows the law could mean a large share of registered voters with felony records still face hurdles. The researchers identified about 14,000 people within this group who have registered to vote since the end of 2018, and among them at least 9,700, or 69%, still owed money, according to a Journal analysis of the researcher’s data.
Criminal-justice advocates sued the state and argued that adding a requirement to pay legal and financial obligations, like fees and court costs, were an illegal barrier to the ballot box. They won
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