Felons who registered to vote in Florida before a major court ruling last month must be allowed to cast regular ballots, not provisional ballots, in Tuesday’s presidential election, the top lawyer for county supervisors of elections said.

Attorney Ron Labasky sent an email to supervisors after lawyers for voting-rights advocates raised an alert about possible problems encountered by felons trying to cast ballots during the early voting period, which ends Sunday.

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