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The Alabama attorney general office wrote in a Friday court filing that the new law, which has a Oct. 1 effective date, cannot be used to block people from voting in the upcoming election, because ...
Alabama did not begin consistently tracking absentee votes until 2020, but in each election after the 2020 General Election, the number of statewide absentee ballots have been between 3 and 5%.
PHOTO: A voter enters a polling place to cast their ballot in the state's primary, March 5, 2024, in Mountain Brook, Ala. (Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images, FILE)
The state with the highest number of disenfranchised voters was Florida, with 1.5 million disenfranchised [19] because of a current or previous felony conviction, over 10% of the voting age citizens, including the 774,000 disenfranchised only because of outstanding financial obligations. In October 2020, it was estimated that 5.1 million ...
Allen v. Milligan, 599 U. S. 1 (2023), [note 1] is a United States Supreme Court case related to redistricting under the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA). The appellees and respondents argued that Alabama's congressional districts discriminated against African-American voters.
Congress, when exercising "exclusive legislation" over U.S. Military Bases in the United States, and Washington, D.C., viewed its power as strong enough to remove all voting rights. All state and federal elections were canceled by Congress in D.C. and all of Maryland's voting Rights laws no longer applied to D.C. when Maryland gave up that land.
While states are allowed to clean up their voter registrations ahead of an election, federal law says that must happen more than 90 days before an election. Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen on ...
Ahead of November, Vice President Kamala Harris pushes to revive the stalled John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, a law aimed at preventing discriminatory practices during the voting process.