GOP Is Targeting Disabled Alabamians With Voting Restrictions
Under Alabama’s SB 1, people who assist voters with absentee ballot applications could face a 20-year prison sentence.
Alabama may be the birthplace of the civil rights movement, but today, it has some of the most restrictive voting laws in the nation. With a historic election on the horizon, a bill enacted in March further restricts access to the polls, this time disproportionately threatening to disenfranchise the state’s largest marginalized group: disabled people. Under Alabama’s Senate Bill 1 (SB 1)...