Voting rights groups sue Alabama over blocking assistance for absentee ballots
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The organizations claim ‘extreme’ ban enacted last month is unconstitutional attack on votersA group of Alabama civil rights and voting rights organizations filed a federal lawsuit against the state on Thursday to block enforcement of a new law that criminalizes some kinds of voter assistance with absentee ballots.Last month, Kay Ivey, the Alabama governor, signed into law Senate Bill 1, which she said targets “ballot harvesting”. The law makes it a crime to request or collect an absentee ballot...

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