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- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
LDF, SPLC, and ADAP File Federal Lawsuit Challenging Alabama’s Lack of Safe and Accessible Voting During COVID-19 Pandemic
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program (ADAP) filed a federal lawsuit against Alabama Governor Kay Ivey, Secretary of State John Merrill, and others over the state’s lack of safe and accessible voting processes amid the COVID-19…
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- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
People First of Alabama, et al. v. John Merrill, et al.
As elections approached in Alabama during the COVID-19 pandemic, the state failed to provide safe and accessible voting, potentially disenfranchising tens of thousands of voters. The SPLC and its allies filed a federal lawsuit to compel state officials to make absentee and in-person voting more accessible to protect the health and safety of Alabama voters.…
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Get-out-the-vote effort goes digital for COVID-19 pandemic
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Alexis Carr was able to knock on doors in Montgomery, Alabama, register people to vote, instruct them on voting rights and encourage them to cast their ballots on Election Day.
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- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
As Alabama primary nears, voter suppression is alive and well
All across this country, the right to vote is under attack. But with your support, we’re fighting back in Southern courts and state legislatures with a newly formed team of legal, policy, and grassroots advocates.
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- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
SPLC launches voting rights legal team, testifies before U.S. House panel in Alabama
Ever since state and local law enforcement officers attacked peaceful civil rights marchers with billy clubs and tear gas on “Bloody Sunday” in 1965, Alabama has been at the epicenter of the fight for voting rights.
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Alabama Voting Rights Project helps 2,000 people cast ballots in Alabama, but many more do not know they can vote
Rodney Lofton had never cast a ballot before a felony conviction stripped him of his voting rights in 2015.
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SPLC working to restore voting rights to thousands disenfranchised by Jim Crow-era laws
An “I Voted” sticker stuck prominently to Jazmine Clay’s yellow T-shirt as she walked toward a pavilion in Birmingham’s Learning Tree Park, next to her polling place.
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SPLC launches voting rights restoration project with Campaign Legal Center
Seeking to guarantee the voting rights of Alabama residents who have paid their debt to society after felony convictions, the SPLC and the Campaign Legal Center are launching a grassroots campaign to re-enfranchise thousands of Alabama voters.
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Weekend Read: Black voters turned out in Alabama — despite suppression
When it came time to cast her ballot in the presidential election last fall, Dechauna Jiles voted at the First Assembly of God in Dothan, Alabama.
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