With the 2008 elections drawing ever closer and the topic of voting rights continuing as a politically charged issue, five highly regarded legal experts took part Monday, October 29th, 2007, in a voting rights panel discussion held at the School of Law. Topics discussed included civil rights issues related to voting rights, election reform, restoring the voting rights of ex-felons, ways college students can get involved in the voting process, and the replacement of controversial touchscreen voting machines in several Florida counties with voting equipment that leaves a paper trail.

Panelists, from left to right, included Bradford Brown, current first vice president and past president of the Miami-Dade NAACP; Lester Sola, supervisor of elections for Miami-Dade County; Joanne Harvest Koren, director of the School of Law's Academic Achievement Program; Martha R. Mahoney, professor of law; and Muslima Lewis, senior attorney and director of racial justice and voting rights projects at the ACLU of Florida. The H.O.P.E. Public Interest Resource Center; the Joint Program on Law, Public Policy, and Ethics; and the Center for Ethics and Public Service sponsored the panel.

posted 1-November-2007