Attorneys for felons trying to have their voting rights restored are accusing Gov. Rick Scott and the Florida Cabinet of “foot-dragging” by trying to block a federal judge’s order that gave the state until April 26 to revamp its controversial rights-restoration process.

A response filed last Thursday by the plaintiffs’ lawyers in the Atlanta-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit is the latest salvo in the case, filed last year on behalf of nine Florida felons.

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