Voting rights bills and lawsuits megathread (Updated: April 27th 2020)

[ajc0918]

Tremendous news for 2018!

https://www.twitter.com/marceelias/status/1021812227857367041

This is BIG. This means each individual county will likely be able to determine if a university can get an on campus early voting precinct. I'm pretty confidence Alachua (UF) and Leon (FSU) will add them. I could see Orange (UCF) and Hillsborough (USF) doing the same.

I could easily see a few thousand more students vote as a result.

[ajc0918]

Potentially big development in Florida regarding voting rights:

MIAMI OFFICIALS: MOST PEOPLE WHO OWE FINES AND FEES CAN VOTE
Lawyers and advocates in Miami-Dade County will roll out a new plan to counter the disenfranchisement of people with felony convictions.

Carlos Martinez, the elected public defender in Miami-Dade, said he estimates that financial obligations are not listed on the sentencing documents for 90 percent of people with outstanding fines and fees in the county.

“People were looking at the high number and amount of fees, fines, and costs that are assessed in Florida, and they were thinking that every person that wants their rights restored has to pay their fees, fines, and costs,” Martinez said. “And the reality is that if they’re not in the four corners of the sentence document, they don’t have to be paid for completion of the sentence. Individuals are still required to pay fines, fees, and costs because there is a court order, but the requirement of such payment is not part of the completion of sentence definition that the legislature created in the statute.

https://theappeal.org/miami-officials-most-people-who-owe-fines-and-fees-can-vote/