Amendment 4

Among the priorities of these college activists: expand access to contraception and promote Amendment 4, which would allow abortions in Florida until fetal viability.

The voting fraud charges against the 69-year-old Tallahassee woman have been dropped. The reason: there was little proof Marsha Ervin intended to vote illegally.

The federal lawsuit says state leaders have failed to carry out a constitutional amendment designed to restore voting rights to felons who complete their sentences.

Voting rights groups say Florida’s voter registration form is flawed and it’s leading to people’s arrest. The Florida League of Women Voters and Florida chapter of the NAACP filed suit last week alleging the form violates the National Voter Registration Act.

State leaders say the primaries went smoothly, but they’re still talking about work for the state’s new Office of Election Crimes and Security.

The felons were previously charged with murder or sexual assault, according to the governor. As such, Amendment Four does not apply to them and they are not allowed to vote under Florida law, he explained at a press conference in Broward.

The Florida Rights Restoration Coalition rallied in Tallahassee and Quincy today to encourage felons to vote.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has not launched a formal investigation into Mike Bloomberg’s effort to pay fines and fees for Florida felons, the agency told WFSU Monday.

Advocates are working to get as many felons registered to vote before the next election as they can. But a new ruling from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals is making that more difficult. It requires felons to first pay off all fines and fees tied to their sentences.

Florida felons must pay off all legal financial oblations before registering to vote. The U.S. 11th District Court of Appeals handed down that ruling Friday. The decision comes after a lower court found the fees and fines were essentially a poll tax—violating the 24th amendment