US EditionAlabama asks court to lift block on limits to absentee ballot applications
Alabama appeals to reinstate a law banning gifts for absentee ballot help, aiming to prevent exploitation while ensuring assistance for voters with disabilities, affecting 208 voters under the Voting Rights Act.
- On Tuesday, attorneys from Alabama’s state government requested that the 11th Circuit Court overturn a judge’s injunction preventing enforcement of a 2024 law restricting paid assistance with absentee ballot applications.
- The law criminalizes providing gifts or payments to third parties for helping with absentee ballot applications, aiming to prevent paid operatives from exploiting vulnerable voters.
- Opponents, including the NAACP and disability groups, argue the law improperly narrows assistance options and could criminalize aides helping blind, disabled, or illiterate voters.
- Attorney Anuja D. Thatte stated that the law is extensive in scope and imposes penalties of up to two decades in prison for a wide range of activities related to assisting with absentee ballot applications, thereby limiting the federal voting protections under Section 208.
- The court has not yet ruled, leaving the injunction in place for blind, disabled, and illiterate voters, while most of the law remains enforced across the state.
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Federal court hears arguments in Alabama appeal of absentee ballot ruling
Absentee ballots are prepared to be mailed at the Wake County Board of Elections on Sept. 17, 2024 in Raleigh, North Carolina. A federal court Tuesday heard arguments in Alabama's appeal of a lower court ruing that struck down a portion of a law criminalizing some forms of absentee ballot assistance. (Allison Joyce/Getty Images))A federal court heard arguments Tuesday in Alabama’s appeal of a 2024 ruling that blocked a portion of a state law cri…
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Alabama asks court to lift block on limits to absentee ballot applications
Alabama is asking a federal appeals court to lift an injunction that blocked part of a law that limits assistance with absentee ballot applications.
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