{"id":120121,"date":"2023-10-23T14:15:46","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T14:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=120121"},"modified":"2023-10-23T14:15:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T14:15:48","slug":"alabama-republicans-are-trying-to-stop-you-from-voting-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=120121","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Alabama Republicans are trying to stop you from voting \u2014 again&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alreporter.com\/2023\/10\/23\/opinion-alabama-republicans-are-trying-to-stop-you-from-voting-again\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.alreporter.com\/2023\/10\/23\/opinion-alabama-republicans-are-trying-to-stop-you-from-voting-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AL Political Reporter<\/a>: &#8220;Alabama Republicans are again trying to make it harder for elderly and Black citizens to vote.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new pre-filed bill would again place criminal restrictions on providing assistance to absentee voters, including elderly voters. Specifically, the bill makes it a Class A misdemeanor to request or provide an absentee ballot application for someone who isn\u2019t a blood relative or who lives in the same household. There are also exceptions, required by federal law, for persons with disabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, if I help the war veteran who lives down the street from my parents obtain an APPLICATION \u2013 not a ballot, but just the application for the ballot \u2013 then I could be charged with a crime and possibly spend a year in jail and pay $5,000.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the brainchild of Rep. Jamie Kiel, R-Russellville, who tried a similar bill last year and during questioning on the floor couldn\u2019t cite a single example of harm that might come from providing assistance in requesting absentee ballots. This year, though, he\u2019s ready.&#8221;  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AL Political Reporter: &#8220;Alabama Republicans are again trying to make it harder for elderly and Black citizens to vote.\u00a0 A new pre-filed bill would again place criminal restrictions on providing assistance to absentee voters, including elderly voters. Specifically, the bill makes it a Class A misdemeanor to request or provide an absentee ballot application for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120123,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120121\/revisions\/120123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}