BREAKING: Federal court finds that Florida& #39;s law that sought to restrict Amendment 4 is an unconstitutional poll tax and violates the Fourteenth Amendment.

This restores voting rights to hundreds of thousands of returning citizens.

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The court makes clear that the vast majority of returning citizens are *unable* to pay their outstanding fines and fees.

The Florida legislature, in other words, disenfranchised close to a million Floridians by making them pay what they knew those citizens couldn& #39;t afford.
Federal judge finds that Florida "has shown a staggering inability to administer" its own law that dramatically restricted Amendment 4
Florida& #39;s law that was just struck down has disenfranchised at least 774,000 Florida citizens, a disproportionately number of whom are Black.

Florida passed this bill knowing it would be "impossible" to administer and knowing it would largely harm communities of color.
The court doesn& #39;t buy Defendants& #39; late-stage attempt to issue new procedures on SB7066: "conceived only in an effort to shore up the State’s flagging position in this litigation" (!)
Florida& #39;s unconstitutional law is so byzantine and nightmarish that Florida citizens who are eligible to vote are afraid to register, for fear of being prosecuted.
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