An amendment to the Florida Constitution restoring voting rights to felons who have completed their sentences does not require payment of “legal financial obligations,” as ordered in a state law passed this spring, plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit challenging the law argue in a new court filing.

But even if it does, that shouldn’t block automatic restoration of voting rights established in the constitutional amendment from taking effect, lawyers for voting-rights groups and civil-rights advocates wrote in a memorandum of law filed late last week.

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