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Alabama’s secretary of state is trying to clarify confusion over voter eligibility. The office said Friday that it sent letters to several thousand residents who were incorrectly declared “inactive” on voter rolls. The letter assured people they would be eligible to vote in November and would not be subject to criminal prosecution.
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A voting rights group says a new Alabama law that expanded the list of felonies that cause a person to lose their right to vote is “out of step” with what is happening in most of the nation on voting rights.
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A Montgomery nonprofit is offering a bilingual voter engagement campaign geared toward young constituents in Alabama. The South’s Got Now / Decidimos is being put on by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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Alabama voters are heading to the polls for the state's 2nd Congressional District runoff elections happening Tuesday, April 16, for both the Democratic and Republican parties.
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A ruling that weakened a key part of the Voting Rights Act is spurring lawmakers in several states to enact state-level protections to plug gaps that the courts opened in the landmark federal law. The biggest blow to the federal law in the view of voting rights advocates was a 2013 Supreme Court ruling in an Alabama case that stripped the government of a potent tool to stop voting bias.
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Mobile residents will head to the polls today (July 18) to vote that will possibly expand the Mobile City limits into West Mobile. This vote will impact four different areas of the Port City: Airport Corridor, Cottage Hill Corridor, Orchard Estates and Kings Branch.
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Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen just sent a letter with the state’s decision on its participation in a non-profit organization designed to maintain accurate voter rolls.
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Voters in Alabama and the rest of the country head to the polls tomorrow to help determine the next President of the United States. But that won’t be the…
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The secretary of state's office says a record 3.3 million voters are now registered in Alabama. Secretary of State John Merrill says more than 584,000…
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Municipal runoff elections are underway throughout the state of Alabama.Six weeks following the primary elections on August 23rd voters return to the…