Alabama says a new state law expanding the list of felonies that cause a person to lose their right to vote won’t be enforced until after the November election and asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit over the effective date.

The Alabama attorney general office wrote in a Friday court filing that the new law, which has a Oct. 1 effective date, cannot be used to block people from voting in the upcoming election, because the Alabama Constitution prohibits new election laws from taking effect within six months of the general election.

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    Election related crimes should result in disenfranchisement. People who gerrymander districts shoujd be barred from voting or holding public office.

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      Nope, they, too, should be allowed to vote. We shouldn’t allow any path to disenfranchisement.

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        What about the dead? Call me controversial, but I’d like to disenfranchise the dead

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          Okay, call me slightly ableist.