The Southern Poverty Law Center and its allies聽filed a federal lawsuit against Louisiana officials over the state鈥檚 failure to ensure safe voting processes during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020. The lawsuit challenges Louisiana鈥檚 burdensome requirements surrounding absentee ballots that put the...
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May 01, 2020
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. 鈥� Today, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the Southern Poverty Law Center (人兽性交), and the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program (ADAP) filed a federal lawsuit against Alabama Governor Kay...
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 人兽性交 and its allies filed a federal lawsuit to compel state officials to make absentee and in-person voting more...
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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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Abdul Yaw Akachi was talking to his neighbors one sunny day in Florida when a voting rights advocate walked up to him.
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Clutching a clipboard full of voter registration forms under his arm, Marq Mitchell knocked on the front door of a small, beige, stucco house in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
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When they looked over the steel-arched crest of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965, the voting rights activists knew there would be trouble.
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All across this country, the right to vote is under attack. But with your support, we鈥檙e fighting back in Southern courts and state legislatures with a newly formed team of legal, policy, and grassroots advocates.
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