Some of the Florida Democrats have reportedly filed a lawsuit in Florida to force the Democratic National Committee to seat the Florida delegates in the August Democratic Convention in Denver, Colorado.

The lawsuit has been filed by the Senate Democratic Leader Steve Geller, who is an uncommitted super-delegate, Barbara Effman who is a Florida delegate for Hillary Clinton, and Percy Johnson who is a Florida delegate for Barack Obama.
 
The plaintiffs have claimed that stripping Florida of those delegates is in violation of the Voting Rights Act which prohibits any national party from stripping a state's delegates.

According the federal lawsuit, Geller's argument is that, "Florida's history of discrimination against African Americans should force the national Democratic Party to count all of the state's delegates at its national convention."

Geller says, ''The purpose of this lawsuit is not to support one candidate over another; it's to enforce one of the most basic tenets of our democracy: Count the votes as they were cast.”

The lawsuit, filed by Geller's law firm, Greenspoon Marder, Miami lawyer Ben Kuehne and Dan Stengle of Hopping Green & Sams in Tallahassee, asserts that the DNC is in violation of "constitutional protection on equal application of the law and a federal law that requires parties to write their own rules and then follow them."

They say that the DNC is disenfranchising voters in violation of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by stripping the state of it's delegates.

If the law gives verdict in favor of seating Florida's delegates, it would benefit Sen. Hillary Clinton more because she won the majority of the vote in Florida's primary.