Opinion ID: 76927
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Text: 1 This case involves a Fourteenth Amendment Equal Protection Clause challenge and a Section 2 Voting Rights Act (VRA) challenge to Florida's felon disenfranchisement law which provides that [n]o person convicted of a felony ... shall be qualified to vote or hold office until restoration of civil rights or removal of disability. 1 Fla. Const. art. VI, § 4 (1968). The plaintiffs filed this class action on behalf of all Florida citizens who have been convicted of a felony and have completed all terms of their incarceration, probation, and parole but who are barred from voting under the state's felon disenfranchisement law. 2 The defendants are members of Florida's Clemency Board. 3