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The American Civil Liberties Union and four other legal groups represented them.
In a joint statement on Friday, Yadira Sánchez, the executive director of Poder Latinx, and Frankie Miranda, the president and CEO of the Hispanic Federation, praised the judge’s ruling.
“This victory continues to allow legal residents and others who have called Florida home for decades to continue helping their U.S. citizen family, neighbors, and friends register to vote,” Miranda said.
NBC quoted Sánchez as saying: “We will continue to play a pivotal role in our communities, especially in mobilizing individuals to actively participate in our civic duties, thereby contributing significantly to our collective progress.”
According to the publication, legal residents have to wait five years to become citizens and be able to vote.
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Walker’s recusal from the case was previously requested by Florida Secretary of State Cord Byrd, who said that Walker “appears to have a closed mind” about the state’s efforts to strengthen vote integrity measures.
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a previous ruling by Byrd’s office, which claimed that the 2021 law unfairly discriminated against black voters. According to CBS News, Byrd’s office cited “to parts of a ruling he issued Feb. 8 in a separate court battle about a 2021 elections law” in support of the state.
But the court also stated in his decision that Florida “has, with surgical precision, repeatedly changed Florida’s election code to target whichever modality of voting Florida’s Black voters were using at the time. That was not this court’s opinion – it is a fact established by the record in these cases (involving the 2021 law). Even so, following the state of Florida’s appeal, this persistent and pernicious practice of targeting the modalities of voting most used by Florida’s Black voters has apparently received the stamp of approval in this (11th) Circuit.”
Republicans, including the former president Trump, are winning over Latino voters to Democrats, according to a new study, despite allegations of GOP-led voting suppression.
“Sunday’s Fox News poll also found Biden’s support slipping among black and Hispanic voters. He won 66 percent of black voters, while 28 percent said they would vote for Trump. Meanwhile, Hispanic voters were nearly split, with 49 percent backing Biden and 48 percent saying they plan to vote for Trump,” Newsweek noted.
Due to policy concerns, Biden is concerned about the decline in support he is receiving from younger people who lean progressive.
