Federal Judge Blocks Parts of Alabama Law Imposing Limits on Disabled Voters
A federal judge has blocked a portion of an Alabama state law passed earlier this year concerning absentee ballots, finding that it illegally limited how people who are disabled, blind or have difficulty reading can be helped in casting their votes. Chief U.S. District Judge David Proctor stated in his ruling, which was issued on Tuesday, that the state law was in violation of federal…