WINNING: Alabama has Finally passed legislation Bill

SUCCESS: Alabama has enacted laws eliminating the DEI bureaucracy in all public colleges and universities. We are tearing down left-wing racialism state by state and putting the idea of colorblind equality in its place.

Montgomery, Alabama Two bills that would restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion programs at colleges and state agencies as well as one that would bar paid assistance with absentee ballot applications were given final approval by Alabama lawmakers on Tuesday.

The bills were designated as legislative priority by Republicans. Changes proposed by the House of Representatives were approved by the Senate in party-line votes. It is now up to Gov. Kay Ivey to sign the two legislation.

A text message requesting comment was not immediately answered by an Ivey spokesperson.

The law pertaining to absentee voting would make it a criminal to give a voter a pre-filled absentee ballot application or to take back a completed application from another voter. A payment or gift “for distributing, ordering, requesting, collecting, completing, prefilling, obtaining, or delivering a voter’s absentee ballot application” would be illegal to provide or accept.

Republicans claimed that “ballot harvesting,” the practice of gathering numerous absentee votes, was necessary to stop voting fraud. Democrats countered that there is no evidence of ballot harvesting and described it as an effort to stifle absentee voting.

“Application assistance is still available to anybody, but no portion of the application may be pre-filled. That’s all,” the bill’s Republican sponsor, Senator Garlan Gudger, stated. “When someone says, ‘I want you to vote this way,’ and hands them an application, that puts a lot of pressure on you. That is not possible for you to accomplish. It must be blank,” Gudger remarked.

The proposal, according to Democrats and a number of advocacy groups, is an attempt to make voting by absentee ballot more difficult.

“This is merely further voter suppression. “It’s merely a way to prevent some individuals from exercising their ability and right to vote freely,” stated Senate Minority Leader Bobby Singleton.

As stated in a release, the “cruel legislation aims to criminalize the charitable acts of good Samaritans across the state, whether from neighbors, church members, nursing home staffers, or prison chaplains.” Jerome Dees is the Southern Poverty Law Center Action Fund’s policy director for Alabama.

Across the nation, Republican legislators have promoted bills that would limit efforts to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion—or DEI. Under the Alabama legislation, DEI programs—which are defined as classes, training, programs, and events where attendance is based on a person’s race, sex, gender identity, ethnicity, national origin, or sexual orientation—would not be allowed to be sponsored by universities, K–12 school systems, or state agencies.

Earlier this month, the bill caused a great deal of discussion in the House of Representatives.

Republicans claimed to be attempting to prevent policies that “deepen divisions,” but Black Democrats saw the move as an attempt to revert affirmative action policies that support and promote diversity.

According to the measure, seminars and training sessions “that advocates for or requires assent” to what the bill describes as eight “divisive concepts” cannot be required of students, staff members, or contractors by schools, colleges, or state agencies. The list of ideas that are prohibited states that “any individual should accept, acknowledge, affirm, or assent to a sense of guilt, complicity, or a need to apologize on the basis of his or her race, color, religion, sex, ethnicity, or national origin.”

Additionally, the law would try to forbid transgender individuals from using multiple occupancy restrooms on college campuses in accordance with their gender identity as it exists at the moment.

Universities and colleges “shall ensure that every multiple occupancy restroom be designated for use by individuals based” on the sex assigned to each person at birth, according to the legislation. How the provision would be put into practice is unknown.