SCOTUS voted 5-3 to allow Alabama to ban curbside voting for people with disabilities that put them at higher risk from COVID buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Justice Sotomayor, dissenting, said the court was standing in the way of counties "ready and willing to help vulnerable voters."
Justice Sotomayor, dissenting, said the court was standing in the way of counties "ready and willing to help vulnerable voters."
An Alabama district judge had blocked Alabama from enforcing the curbside voting ban during the pandemic after a lengthy trial, and the 11th Circuit rejected Alabama's request to pause that order. The state AG's office petitioned SCOTUS to step in buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
According to an amicus brief that advocates for disabled persons and the elderly filed with SCOTUS, there are at least 29 states that allow for some form of curbside voting, usually to accomodate people with disabilities buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Alabama's position is curbside voting is unlawful because the legislature hasn't approved it. The state AG said allowing it now was a "recipe for chaos" and that it came with the "specter of voters’ cars backed up further than a Chick-fil-A drive-thru"
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Spoke with a voting rights lawyer involved in the case who said that going in-person to vote carries real risks since Alabama's mask order excludes polling sites, and people are wary of putting ballots in the mail in case they arrive after the deadline buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
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