Virtual Event Addresses Florida’s Showdown Over Felon Voting Rights


By polly burks | 9/14/2020

Florida Atlantic University’s Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters presents the free virtual event “Pay-to-Vote or Protecting Democracy? Florida’s Showdown Over Felon Voting Rights” on Tuesday, Sept. 15 at 1 p.m.

The panel discussion will include Nancy Abudu, deputy legal director of voting rights, Southern Poverty Law Center; Daniel Rivero, reporter and producer covering Latino and criminal justice issues for WLRN radio; Rep. Randy Fine, Florida House of Representatives, Palm Bay; and Neil Volz, deputy director of Florida Rights Restoration Coalition.

The panel will be moderated by Ilene Prusher, FAU School of Communication and Multimedia Studies. To register for this zoom webinar, visit https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_eMVvvLHTSiWeLsn4vqjM4A

This panel is presented as part of FAU’s Constitution Day 2020 events. It is co-sponsored by FAU’s Diversity Platform, Division of Student Affairs and Enrollment Management, the Jack Miller Forum, FAU’s Department of Political Science, and FAU’s School of Communication and Multimedia Studies.

For more information, email pburks@fau.edu.

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