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The Alabama voting ban on people with felony convictions first dates to the Jim Crow-era 1901 Alabama Constitution, which was designed to keep Black people and poor white people from voting.
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%.
The Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Alabama and its secretary of state on Friday, arguing that an effort to remove voters from state rolls was taking place too close to the Nov. 5 ...
In Puerto Rico, felons in prison are allowed to vote in elections. Practices in the United States are in contrast to some European nations that allow prisoners to vote, while other European countries have restrictions on voting while serving a prison sentence, but not after release. [97] Prisoners have been allowed to vote in Canada since 2002 ...
A Hill/HarrisX poll of 2,827 registered voters conducted in April 2021 found that 43% (including 70% of Republicans and 41% of Independents) supported stricter voting laws, while 31% (including 50% of Democrats) stated that new laws should be passed to make voting more accessible. Another 27% expressed opposition to changing existing voting laws.
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)
Florida's disenfranchised felons constituted 10% of the adult population, and 21.5% of the adult African American population. [10] As Governor of Florida, Charlie Crist reformed the process for the reinstatement of voting rights in 2007, allowing non-violent offenders to have their voting rights automatically restored.
After the 2020 election, battleground states including Georgia and Florida enacted voting restrictions such as implementing stricter voter ID requirements, banning volunteers from handing out food ...