There's no way to sugarcoat this, John: Alabama recently made it harder to vote by mail.
Alabama lawmakers recently passed SB1, a bill that opponents of voting rights said would stop so-called "ballot harvesting", which is what they call it when pro-voting organizations assist in the "distribution and collection of absentee ballot applications". In short, Alabama is criminalizing activists who go door to door and help people apply to vote by mail.
It's worth noting that high-priority bills are given the lowest numbers. A bill like this being given number 1 should tell you everything about the importance they put on voter suppression.
Even after pro-voting advocates highlighted how it would keep elderly and disabled voters from getting the help they need with mail-in voting and pointed to the lack of examples of ballot harvesting cases in Alabama as evidence that the law was not needed, Alabama's vote-suppressing Secretary of State is rushing to implement the new law.
Voter suppression like this anywhere hurts us everywhere, John. Defend voting rights in Alabama and across the country with $25 or whatever you can today to fight for the promise of our democracy by making every voice heard in our elections >>