Seattle Times: As Americans last year debated the elections, Victor Sauceda endured tough conversations with friends and others talking about their votes.Sauceda, 31, was released from prison in October 2019, he said, after serving time for felony convictions — meaning… Continue reading

Johnny Kauffman for WABE: Tariq Baiyina has lobbied politicians, shaken hands with governors, set up a college program, and delivered dozens of sermons. Despite all this, the 42-year-old has never voted. And the reason is simple: since 2002, when he… Continue reading

WaPo: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s administration delivered last-minute guidance to local election officials recommending measures that voting-rights advocates say could intimidate or confuse voters, the latest salvo in a pitched battle over who is able to cast ballots in… Continue reading

The following is a guest post from Neel U. Sukhatme, Associate Professor, Georgetown University Law Center, and Co-Founder, Free Our Vote: As readers of this blog might know, nearly 65% of voters in Florida supported a ballot initiative… Continue reading

CNN: Election officials in Florida are taking steps to remove ex-felons from the voter rolls if they still owe court debts, according to an email sent this week to county elections officials obtained by CNN.The state’s elections director, Maria… Continue reading

Via email: With less than 18 days until the 2020 General Election, the Florida Division of Elections made plans to remove returning citizens who owe legal financial obligations from Florida’s voter roll in direct violation of Florida’s 30-day notice period.… Continue reading

Tampa Bay Times:  A few months ago, we and ProPublica wanted to answer a question: How many people with felony convictions have registered to vote under Amendment 4?Passed by nearly two-thirds of voters in 2018, the amendment was supposed to… Continue reading

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy for The Hill.

Just wow.

WaPo: Former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg and his team have raised more than $16 million to pay the court fines and fees of nearly 32,000 Black and Hispanic Florida voters with felony convictions, an effort aimed at boosting turnout… Continue reading

NYT: When voters passed the referendum, known as Amendment 4, civil rights groups celebrated what was billed as a potentially game-changing expansion of the electorate in the nation’s biggest battleground state. White people like Mr. Gruver represent a majority… Continue reading

Josh Douglas at NBC Think.

You can find the 200 pages of opinions and rulings at this link. From one of the dissents (Judge Martin): Second, even if a returning citizen is able to determine his original LFO obligation, then “[d]etermining the amount that has… Continue reading