A new Florida elections law provision prohibiting non-citizens, including legal residents, from collecting voter registrations was blocked by a federal judge.
Voting rights and Latino advocates have long said that voters of color are more likely to be registered to vote by community-based organizations than white voters. This is especially true in Florida, Vélez said.
The Hispanic Federation plans to focus their Latino voter engagement efforts in counties and precincts, such as Florida's Osceola County, which includes Orlando and Kissimmee, where Latino voter participation is not proportionate to the Latino voting population, Vélez said. Republican supporters of the new law said it would make elections more secure. In issuing his 58-page ruling Monday, Judge Mark E. Walker said that while the state was"correct to seek integrity in our electoral system,” its solutions for doing so"are too far removed from the problems it has put forward as justifications.”
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