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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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Ever since state and local law enforcement officers attacked peaceful civil rights marchers with billy clubs and tear gas on 鈥淏loody Sunday鈥� in 1965, Alabama has been at the epicenter of the fight for voting rights.
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Rodney Lofton had never cast a ballot before a felony conviction stripped him of his voting rights in 2015.
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An 鈥淚 Voted鈥� sticker stuck prominently to Jazmine Clay鈥檚 yellow T-shirt as she walked toward a pavilion in Birmingham鈥檚 Learning Tree Park, next to her polling place.
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Seeking to guarantee the voting rights of Alabama residents who have paid their debt to society after felony convictions, the 人兽性交 and the Campaign Legal Center are launching a grassroots campaign to re-enfranchise thousands of Alabama voters.
In 2011, Alabama lawmakers approved a law requiring voters to present a government-issued photo ID to cast a ballot in the state. Civil rights groups filed a lawsuit challenging the law as discriminatory, noting it targeted Black and Latinx voters who disproportionately lack such identification...
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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.
This suit forced Alabama to reapportion its state legislature and discard the voting system that diluted the voting strength of African Americans. The result was the adoption of single-member districts and the 1974 election of 15 black legislators.
