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New lawsuit challenges Florida voter purge

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The groups -- including Advancement Project, Fair Elections Legal Network, LatinoJustice PRLDEF and Project Vote -- have scheduled a Tuesday afternoon conference call to announce the lawsuit against Secretary of State Ken Detzner. Read more

Florida faces another lawsuit over voter purge

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Florida is again being sued over its contentious push to remove potentially ineligible voters from the rolls. Read more

Voter groups will sue Florida over non-citizen ‘purge’

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A coalition of national voter advocacy groups will file a lawsuit on Tuesday seeking to stop the state of Florida from "purging" the voter rolls of non-citizens. Read more

VIDEO: Voting Rights Groups Blast Florida’s Election Rolls Purge Of Suspected Non-Citizens

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Letters have already been mailed out to 2,600 Florida residents informing them they may be ineligible to vote. Read more

One woman’s experience in Florida’s targeting of noncitizen voters

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She's the prototypical Tampa Bay resident in many ways, but the State of Florida falsely accused her of not being a U.S. citizen. Read more

Voter Purge, Minority Voting Rights Flashpoints Of New Showdown In Florida

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Florida officials made it clear Friday that the state will continue to purge as many as 182,000 suspected noncitizens from the state’s voter rolls -- despite a coalition's call to stop the process or prepare for court. Read more

Voting Rights Organizations Send Notice to Florida: Stop Purging Voters

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oday, a coaliton of civil and voting rights organizations sent a letter to Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner, alerting him that Florida’s plan to identify and remove alleged non-citizens from the voter rolls violates federal law and must cease immediately. Read more

Groups call on Florida to halt voter purge

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Six civil rights and voting rights organizations sent a letter Thursday to Secretary of State Ken Detzner asking him to stop the purge or he will risk a lawsuit. Read more

Florida NAACP v. Browning: Order to Dismiss

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Order to dismiss in Florida NAACP v. Browning Read more

Virginia Election Officials Sued for Unlawfully Denying Access to Voter Files

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Today, leading voter protection groups Advancement Project and Project Vote, along with pro bono cooperating attorneys from the law firm of Ropes & Gray LLP, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Norfolk against Elisa Long, general registrar of Norfolk and Nancy Rodrigues, secretary of the State Board of Elections, for denying access to certain voter registration records.  Read more