Confronted with a federal judge’s looming deadline, Florida Gov. Rick Scott called an extraordinary late-night meeting of top state officials Wednesday to decide what to do about the state’s process for restoring voting rights to former prisoners.

U.S. District Judge Mark Walker gave Florida until Thursday to create a new process after ruling in February that the state’s system is unconstitutional and arbitrary, with decisions possibly swayed by politics and racial factors.

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