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In the article, the author examines the laws in Florida that allegedly suppress African Americans' right to vote, particularly the provisions of the Florida Statute section 98.0751 mandating felons to pay all their legal financial obligations to regain their voting rights. Also cited is the reason why the U.S. Eleventh Circuit allegedly erred in its ruling reversing a district court's decision stating that the section's poll tax provision violated the 24th constitutional amendment.

Violence against Black bodies in Florida is so widespread that the national #BlackLivesMatter movement was born in the state on the night young Trayvon Martin was killed with impunity. This research investigates the socio-political context in which this violence is both legal and apparently accepted, problematizing the citizenship status of members of the Floridian African-American community-over 23 % of whom cannot vote due to stringent state felony disenfranchisement legislation. This research estimates the effects of this widespread electoral exclusion on Floridian elections and, resultantly, on the legislative realities of the state. We find that the form and extent of felony disenfranchisement in Florida have likely put the Right Party in power, worked to create legislation that is counter to the interests of African-Americans, and ultimately achieved a marginalization of the population so deleterious to its citizenship status as to put into question the worth of its members' lives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the redistricting process in Florida by the U.S. Bureau of the Census. Topics discussed include detailed process of allocation of state legislators in redistricting, drawing of redistrict maps, history of redistricting, limits and standards of redistricting plans including the voting rights act of 1965, limitations of African-American minority populations in racial redistricting and 2010 redistricting cycle.