A piece of legislation that would allow voters over the age of 70 and the disabled to avoid waiting in line at polling places passed in the Alabama House today after little discussion. Rep. David Standridge, R-Hayden, said he sponsored the bill after witnessing elderly citizens standing in long lines waiting to cast their votes. “This would just merely allow them to move up in line if they so request it,” he said today on the House floor.
An amendment proposed by the House Constitution Campaigns and Elections committee requiring poll workers post a visible sign notifying the elderly and disabled they could move ahead of the line also passed.
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