“This is the most litigious year I’ve ever experienced on voting rights,' said Dale Ho, of the American Civil Liberties Union. “COVID has turbocharged these controversies and has created more emergencies.”
has fueled an outbreak of lawsuits from voters, church worshipers, prisoners and others challenging public health policies, but the Supreme Court is proving to be a roadblock.beyond the date of the primary election, forcing those who had not received their ballots to go to the polls or be disenfranchised.to the state's reopening guidelines, which imposed tighter restrictions on the number of worshipers allowed to attend religious services than on most commercial establishments.
Earlier this month, the court refused to make it easier for voters in three Alabama counties to use absentee ballots, keeping in place a requirement that voters submit an affidavit signed by a notary public or two adult witnesses.and denied petitions from spiritual advisers seeking to delay two federal executions until they could safely attend.
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