TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) – The Department of State will instruct elections supervisors to contact voters on a list of potential non-citizens and tell them they are eligible to cast ballots as part of a settlement reached Wednesday with groups who sued claiming the list purge was discriminatory because it mostly targeted Hispanics.
The state will ask elections supervisors to contact about 2,600 people that were on the list and tell them that they are eligible to vote unless it’s been proven that they aren’t citizens. Some eligible voters had been removed from rolls because they didn’t respond to certified mail after the state originally distributed the list to supervisors.
