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In 2021, Alabama lawmakers enacted a new district map for the Alabama state Senate that significantly diminishes the power of the state鈥檚 Black voters. The Southern Poverty Law Center and its co-counsel filed a federal lawsuit challenging the state鈥檚 discriminatory Senate map.
The lawsuit...
After Alabama failed to provide an absentee voting program that is fully accessible to voters who are blind or have print disabilities, the Southern Poverty Law Center and its co-counsel filed an administrative complaint asking the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the program.
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August 16, 2021
MONTGOMERY, Ala. 鈥� The Southern Poverty Law Center (人兽性交) released a series of reports today revealing current, consistent, and well-documented racial discrimination in voting in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi as Congress...
Alabama resident Angelique Harris attempted to register to vote over the course of several years but was unlawfully denied by her county registrars due to a failure of state law to clarify how out-of-state and federal felony convictions are to be treated for determining voting eligibility. The...
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The right to vote is vitally important, and casting a ballot should never require risking your health.
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.
