Federal judge recuses himself from felon voting case — and takes a shot at Broward elections supervisor

The plaintiffs filed the case in Gainesville, a choice that assured that the case would go to U.S. District Mark Walker, a Tallahassee-based judge who has consistently ruled against restrictive state election laws and frequently ruled in favor of challenges to Florida election laws. In a different case, he’d ruled that Florida’s previous, cumbersome voting rights restoration process for felons was unconstitutional.