Protecting the Right to Voter Assistance
LWV Alabama, the Alabama State Conference of the NAACP, Greater Birmingham Ministries, and Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program (ADAP), filed a federal lawsuit against restrictions on assisting voters with absentee ballot applications in Alabama. The new restrictions criminalize prefiling out an absentee ballot application with an applicant’s information, submitting another person’s absentee ballot application for them in almost all circumstances, receiving payment for distributing, collecting, or delivering a voter’s absentee ballot application, among other activities, and receiving or giving gifts for the same.