Alabama lawmakers might make it a crime for election officials to receive help from private organizations in voter outreach and registration. League of Women Voters says bill would suppress voter outreach efforts. alpolitics
Updated: Mar. 08, 2022, 8:05 p.m. |Scott Douglas, executive director of Greater Birmingham Ministries, said a bill to make it a crime for election officials to receive help from private groups is meant to intimidate and suppress voter outreach programs. Douglas spoke at a press conference on March 8 in Montgomery.
“We want to make sure that we put firewalls in Alabama to make sure private funding does not go into our elections process,” Allen said.At least eight states with Republican-controlled Legislatures passed restrictions last year on private funding of elections,That was after Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg donated $400 million to help local governments cover increased election expenses caused by the pandemic in 2020.
Jones said the League of Women Voters of Alabama helps people with voter registration, absentee ballots, restoration of voting rights, and other services. She said those efforts rely to some extent on collaboration with local election officials, such as for accurate information. Jones said Allen’s bill could make local officials hesitant to assist with any such efforts because of concerns they might run afoul of the law.
Allen is running for secretary of state, the office that oversees state elections, in the May 24 primary. He is a former Pike County probate judge.the Center for Tech and Civic Life, a nonprofit based in Chicago, gave grants to more than 2,500 local governments to help pay for elections in 2020. That was after Zuckerberg donated $350 million to the nonprofit.
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