Ending Voter Suppression

UNBELIEVABLE  

Not all Alabamians are being treated equally even though Alabama has been called the cradle of civil rights!  

14% 

AFRICAN AMERICAN REPRESENATION 

While African Americans make up 27% of the Alabama population, newly drawn congressional maps reflect only a 14% representation.  

1964 

VOTING RIGHTS ACT 

The very inequities that go to the heart of why The Voting Act was needed have not been protected in Alabama.  

83% 

UNEQUAL PAY 

In 2020, a full-time, year-round working woman was still being paid more than 17% less than her male-counterpart in the U.S.!   

SOURCE:   United States Department of Labor Women’s Bureau              

What Boyd Believes:  Every Alabamian – and every Americans – deserve the same opportunities to achieve The American Dream.  That’s why WILL BOYD will work hard every day as your United States Senator to:  

• Support all efforts to end voter suppression
• Oppose any efforts to silence the voice of voters
• Oppose any efforts to undermine The Voting Rights Act, especially those that misrepresent minority representation through gerrymandering Congressional districts
• Close the gender wage gap for women • Work to ensure that politics don’t interfere with efforts to promote equal rights for all
• Support the Equality Act, which would add LGBTQIA to the Civil Rights Act of 1965 as a protected class 
• Unify the State of Alabama, championing discussions on “race relations,” diversity, and equality
• Combat income inequality, working to ensure that women are truly paid the same wages for the same work
• Champion the rights of women—especially those who are victims of crimes which include abuse, bullying, domestic violence, human trafficking, and sexual assault 
• Seek equal sentences for equal justice while ultimately combating recidivism
• Seek to end discrepancies between minimum sentences for illegal substances (crack, powder cocaine)
• Seek to prevent crime rather than trying to suppress it