HB129 ensures fewer residents lose their license for non-driving offenses
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HB129 ensures fewer residents lose their license for non-driving offenses

For many people, a driver’s license is not only the only legal way to be able to drive, but it is also their only form of legal ID. What if you suddenly didn’t have a license? You would not be able to legally drive your child to see a doctor if your child became sick. You could not go to a school to meet with a teacher about your child’s special needs. You would not be able to present an ID to vote. You would not be able to drive to work, nor operate equipment on the job (for example, construction equipment) required by your employer. You could lose your job.
March 7, 2021Posted in2021Leg
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HB396 makes absentee voting accessible to all AL voters

During the 2020 General Election, Alabama Voters demonstrated their commitment to democracy by voting in record-breaking numbers during the tumultuous conditions of the worst pandemic in 100 years. The total number of ballots cast in the November 2020 General Election was 2,329,114, the largest total number of votes ever cast during an election in Alabama! In 2020, Absentee Voting became a very popular method of voting for the elderly and immunocompromised, as well as people who didn’t want to expose themselves to the deadly coronavirus at their polling place. Out of the total ballots…
February 25, 2021Posted in2021Leg
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The new Advocacy Team for the LWVAL

Allow us to introduce your new League of Women Voters of Alabama (LWVAL) Advocacy Team! We are an inter-league collaboration of the Alabama State League and nine Local Leagues across Alabama. We are working proactively to advocate for positive change in the Yellowhammer State! Our goal is to harness the expertise, passions, and connections of all of our hundreds of LWV members to advocate for change. We have partnered with Alabama Arise, and are working with them on such voting rights topics as automatic voter registration, voter rights restoration, and absentee/early voting. The LWV…
February 14, 2021Posted in2021Leg
In the midst of distraction, let’s focus
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In the midst of distraction, let’s focus

We open our Advocacy Blog by calling for FOCUS on our League of Women Voters goals, in this unprecedented moment in American history. If you’re like most people, you are absolutely distracted right now. The firehose of news is overwhelming. As human beings we have limited attention, and if that attention is pulled all over the place, then it becomes impossible to focus on goals or anything else. We’re also distracted by fear of the pandemic. And of course just by the challenges of living our lives in our particular situations at this moment…
February 13, 2021Posted in2021Leg