This article was originally published in Public News Service. 

Every person deserves to have their voice heard. No one should lose that opportunity because they’re the victims of a climate disaster.

We put together this guide on what you can do in the wake of a catastrophe in the hopes that it would ease your voting journey. 

Today, Campaign Legal Center, Alabama voters and civil rights groups successfully defended naturalized Americans who were unfairly purged from Alabama’s voter rolls. A federal judge halted Alabama’s illegal and last-minute purge program, which put the freedom to vote for thousands of Alabamians in jeopardy, holding that Alabama could not systematically operate their program meant to remove voters from the rolls in the ninety days before the 2024 general election.