A group of civil rights organizations has filed a lawsuit against a new Alabama law that criminalizes some forms of absentee voter assistance.

The lawsuit — filed by the Alabama State Conference of the NAACP, Greater Birmingham Ministries, the League of Women Voters of Alabama, and the Alabama Disabilities Advocacy Program — claims that the law criminalizing people who receive payment or pay someone to distribute or collect absentee ballot applications is in violation of the First and 14th Amendments of the Constitution, the Voting Rights Act, and the Help America Vote Act of 2002.