 The League of Women Voters, the NAACP, and other groups responding by suspending voter outreach. Republican former state representative Paul DeMarco says there have always been concerns about absentee ballots. And with the fall elections around the corner, the Secretary of State really pushed Alabama state representatives and senators to push this legislation to ban ballot harvesting. A lot of money had been pouring into the state from outside groups to solicit these absentee ballots.