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Virtual Event Addresses Florida’s Showdown Over Felon Voting Rights


By polly burks | 9/14/2020

԰Ƶ’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, ԰Ƶ School of Communication and Multimedia Studies. To register for this zoom webinar, visit

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

For more information, email pburks@fau.edu.

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