Civil rights organizations are teaming up for a class-action lawsuit filed in Florida. The groups are attempting to eliminate possible discriminatory voting policies in the state.ISU political experts and civil rights leaders said the lawsuit is in the best interest of the nation.Steffen Schmidt, university professor of political science, said the case will serve as a reminder to the country that discrimination still occurs.”Certainly it will require someone to pay attention,” he said. “Healthy and good countries get lazy when it comes to enforcing the law.” Robert Price, vice-president of the Black Student Alliance, said it appears voting rights were violated, and he hopes the suit will serve as a preventative step to help eliminate voter discrimination.”If they don’t investigate now, it will happen again in the future,” said Price, junior in management information systems.The lawsuit was filed Jan. 10 by the NAACP, the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation and several other civil rights organizations.Nathan Ashmore, president of the ISU chapter of the ACLU, said there are two main reasons for the suit. He said African-American neighborhoods have unequal systems of voting, and many African-American voters who never have been convicted of a felony were listed as felons at polling precincts and were denied the right to vote.Ashmore, junior in materials engineering, said he thinks the suit will ensure everyone has the right to vote.”As long as it doesn’t influence the past election, it will help to maintain the integrity of the Florida voting codes,” he said.Aaron Fister, president and producer of “Politics Unlimited” on ISU9, said he doesn’t think there was any conspiracy but said any problems need to be exposed.”The suit is actually good,” he said. “The small problems need to be pointed out.”Price said he would like to see a fair and thorough investigation, as well as a national system for voting to ensure every citizen the right to vote.”Everyone has the right to vote,” he said. “If their vote isn’t counted or they aren’t allowed to vote, it is not truly a democratic process.”Fister, junior in management information systems, said the chance of a federal election system is slim because “the constitution doesn’t allow for federal control of the election.”Ashmore said it seems some of the public is taking the lawsuit the wrong way because of all the other lawsuits.”Unfortunately, many people are seeing the suit as a last ditch effort by the liberals, but that is not the case,” he said. “I hope, if nothing else, [the lawsuit] upholds our current constitutional right that everyone has the right to vote.”