Alabama has placed new restrictions on absentee ballot requests
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama has placed new restrictions on assistance with absentee ballot requests, making it illegal to return another person’s ballot application and making it a felony to pay someone to distribute or collect applications.
“Here in Alabama, we are committed to ensuring our elections are free and fair," Ivey said in a statement Wednesday."Under my watch, there will be no funny business in Alabama elections.” “It’s just another voter suppression. It’s just a means of suppressing certain people from having the ability and right to access to the free flowing of the vote,” Senate Minority Leader Bobby Singleton said during debate Tuesday afternoon.application to a voter. The bill also says that no one other than the voter applying for an absentee ballot can return the application to their county's absentee election manager.
“Free and fair elections are the foundation of our constitutional republic. The passage of SB1 signals to ballot harvesters that Alabama votes are not for sale," Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen said in a statement.
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