A group of civil rights organizations has filed a lawsuit against a new Alabama law that criminalizes some forms of absentee voter assistance.
The lawsuit — filed by the Alabama State Conference of the NAACP, Greater Birmingham Ministries, the League of Women Voters of Alabama, and the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program — claims that the law criminalizing people to receive payment or pay someone to distribute or collect absentee ballot applications is in violation of the First and 14th Amendments of the Constitution, the Voting Rights Act, and the Help America Vote Act of 2002.
“SB1 takes Alabama backwards as it violates the law, restricts our basic Constitutional Amendment rights, obliterates freedom of speech,” Benard Simelton, president of the Alabama State Conference of the NAACP, said in a press release. “It marginalizes voters’ access to the ballot
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