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COPYRIGHT 2005 South Florida Sun-Sentinal
Byline: Linda Kleindienst and Gregory Lewis
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to review a 137-year-old Florida law that bans felons from voting _ but advocates promised to carry on their fight with the Legislature and state voters.
Lawyers for Florida's 613,000 ex-felons had argued the prohibition in the state constitution approved by voters in 1868 was racially motivated to blunt the political power of freed slaves.
"The court has not only missed an opportunity to right a great historic injustice, it has shut the courthouse door in the face of hundreds of thousands of disenfranchised voters," said Catherine Weiss,...
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