Our staff attorney, Laurel Hattix, testified to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary on March 1st, 2024, on Modern-Day Voting Discrimination in Alabama. A few months after the Selma to Montgomery March, on August 5, 1965, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act. That is why stronger voting rights protections and preclearance regimes are necessary to address present racial discrimination in voting. In Alabama, Black households are more than twice as likely to lack access to a vehicle than white households. Alabama law already strictly limits ballot return and the criminal penalties for violating these laws are already printed on absentee ballot applications.

Source: New York Times February 29, 2024 23:49 UTC