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By December 8, 2000, there had been multiple court decisions about the presidential election in Florida. [16] On that date, the Florida Supreme Court, by a 4–3 vote, ordered a statewide manual recount of undervotes. [17] On December 9, ruling in response to an emergency request from Bush, the U.S. Supreme Court stayed the recount.
The plaintiffs in the case, Hand v. Scott, alleged the process is unconstitutional due to its arbitrary nature. [15] [16] In April 2018, U.S. District Judge Mark E. Walker ruled that Florida's process for seeking restoration of voting rights in Florida was unconstitutional because it relied too much on personal appeal to Governor Scott. [17]
Unresolved post-election lawsuits related to the 2020 United States presidential election State First filing date Case Court Docket no(s). Outcome Comments References District of Columbia: November 20, 2020: Michigan Welfare Rights Org. et al. v. Donald J. Trump et al. U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia: 1:20-cv-03388 Ongoing
The Sentencing Project, which advocates for restoring voting rights, says roughly 4.4 million people remain unable to vote because of past felony convictions, with 1.1 million of those in Florida.
Florida is one of 19 states that enacted new voting restrictions last year that critics allege will amount to voter suppression. Florida voting law put under the microscope in federal court Skip ...
At 4:00 p.m. EST on December 8, the Florida Supreme Court, by a 4 to 3 vote, rejected Gore's original four-county approach and ordered a manual recount, under the supervision of the Leon County Circuit Court and Leon County Elections Supervisor Ion Sancho, of all undervoted ballots in all Florida counties (except Broward, Palm Beach and Volusia ...
A federal judge on Friday delayed the start of the trial to May 20 of next year, after Florida's March 19 presidential preference voting.
Florida previously had rigorous felony disenfranchisement laws that denied approximately 400,000 people the privilege of voting [2] In 2007, at the urging of Gov. Charlie Crist, the laws were relaxed, allowing hundreds of thousands of non-violent offenders to regain their voting rights after having served their prison terms. [3]