Coalition of rights groups sues Alabama to block enforcement of law criminalizing absentee ballot assistance

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Coalition of rights groups sues Alabama to block enforcement of law criminalizing absentee ballot assistance

A coalition of rights groups led by the Alabama State Conference of the NAACP filed a lawsuit Friday challenging four provisions of Alabama Senate Bill 1, Act No. 2024-33 (“SB 1”), which criminalizes absentee ballot assistance. The case is in the Southern Division of the Northern District of Alabama. Two of the challenged provisions were the Payment Provisions and the Gift Provisions. The filing says that the Payment Provision “makes it ‘unlawfu…