A coalition sued the Alabama Secretary of State and Attorney General over a policy

Last Friday, a coalition of organizations that seek the restoration of voting rights filed a suit against the secretary of state and the attorney general of the State of Alabama, saying that this policy inappropriately targets naturalized Americans in an effort to stop them from voting in the November general election.

The policy alleged in the lawsuit that targets the removal of non-citizens from the state of Alabama’s voter registration lists, “violates the right to vote” because it is directed at naturalized citizens making it impossible for them to vote and does false prosecutions.

“It is alleged that Alabama is using a voter purge which targets naturalized citizens and seeks to disenfranchise them based on the racial demographics of the state which are changing due to the influx of immigrants,” the complaint said.

The complaint deals with one such procedure that Was Started by the Alabama Secretary of State office of wes allen sometime last month. Because 3,251 people had been assigned noncitizen I. D. numbers earlier, the agency went ahead to commence the task of removing them from the states voter registers.

His office’s communications with Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall about the registered voters list were for criminal indictment purposes as she mentioned that seditious activities toward noncitizens participating in election proceedings are a crime under federal law.

In regard to the voter purge, Allen, as cited, mentioned, “I am going to be very clear on this. There is going to be no participation of aliens in our elections.”

As per the complaint legal permanent residents who were issued and have had alien numbers before becoming citizens were mistakenly incorporated into the voter purge.

Secretary of State Allen said that voters removed from the list may actually have been made citizens after implementing that policy. But he also noticed that such voters might be re-registered before the elections.

The program is meant, as the plaintiffs claim, “to remove naturalized citizens from the county” and unnecessarily imposes eligible voters to re-apply for vote again

Naturalization is the process through which foreigners can become citizens of a country, like the USA, after fulfilling a few requisites, e.g. having been a lawfully admitted immigrant for five years or having wed an American citizen or demonstrating competency in English alongside passing a civics test. Others experienced stereotypes in the reverse directions and came to America to become citizens of the USA, these are Melania Trump, Ryan Reynolds and Arnold Schwatzeneggar.

Roald’s naturalization revealed the action only after he discovered that the authorities had canceled his voter registration. As stated in the complaint, the status of Hazelhoff is ambiguous. He has attempted to rectify his registration, yet it is uncertain if he will be able to cast his ballot in the upcoming election.

Kate Huddleston, who serves as senior legal counsel for the Campaign Legal Center informed the press that, ‘there has to be the mention of sanction because it’s designed to instill fear in the minds of naturalized citizens and dissuade them from voting. It goes further to install a notion that upon registration they have committed a criminal offense and so will be charged criminally.’

The last of the three described programs is unconstitutional as it violates the National Voter Registration Act, the Voting Rights Act and the Constitution and therefore, the Plaintiffs ask the federal court for a state of Alabama to issue an Order prohibiting it.

Representatives of Alabama’s Secretary of State were asked by Media concerning a case that is pending in court and it was not possible to get any response from her representative.

Advocacy organizations such as the League of Women Voters of Alabama, Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice, Alabama State Conference of the NAACP, League of Women Voters of Alabama Education Fund among others are joining the suit along with four individuals who claim that their rights to vote have been infringed.

In terms of the specific lawsuit, the defendants include Attorney General Marshall and Secretary of State Allen as well as the chairs of the registrars’ boards in the counties Elmore, Jefferson, Lee and Marshall.

Benard Simelton, president of Alabama National Association for the Advancement of Colored People stated, ‘No one will, no one will put a damper on our passion for making sure all of the voters who want to vote do vote, and all of the votes in every election are counted, period.”

Republican lawmakers have also included this lawsuit as part of their endeavors to place more pre-election procedures including restrictive voting rules to other states before the November election.

Within Tennessee, authorities had insisted over 14,000 citizens to provide additional proof of their citizenship before being eligible to vote while Texas over one integrate ago, Governor Greg Abbott revealed more than a million and a half eligible voters including 6500 noncitizens were erased from the059 State voter roll.

Although more individuals appear to be concerned about being charged for illegal voting, statistics suggest that concrete cases of non-citizen voting are quite rare. Of the 23.5 million ballots studied, there were only around 30 instances of noncitizen voting which is equivalent to 0.0001% according to the Nonprofit Brennan Center for Justice’s analysis in 2017.

“Secretary Allen carried out the Purge Program as it forms part of a soio conspiracy that falsely purports that ltd noncitizen voting exists within American elections,” the complaints reads. There is a compelling mass of evidence that, noncitizen voting is virtually non-existent in the United States and that voter purges supposed to affect the noncitizen or illegal population actually target eligible naturalized voters out of the ballot box.