ASSOCIATED PRESS
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The American Civil Liberties Union and Project Vote are challenging Florida’s new election law.
The groups on Thursday filed a joint motion to intervene in a case filed by Florida Secretary of State Kurt Browning.
Browning has asked the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., to rule the law’s most contentious provisions comply with the federal Voting Rights Act.
The ACLU, Project Vote and other opponents say those sections should be struck down because they would suppress voting by minorities and some other groups.
Two of the provisions would put new limits on voter registration drives and reduce early voting days.
Another would require voters changing out-of-county addresses at polling places to cast provisional ballots.
The fourth would make it harder to get citizen initiatives on the ballot.
Read the original Associated Press report (via Miami Herald) here.