Advocacy groups in Alabama call for election reform after runoff elections
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WIAT) — Some voters in Mobile were listed as inactive when attempting to cast their vote in Tuesday’s runoffs, even though they voted in the August 26th elections. With a statewide primary taking place in just a few months, some advocacy groups said reforms are necessary.
Kim Bailey, president of the League of Women Voters of Alabama, said having absentee ballot tracking and accountability would boost the voice of voters at the polls.
She also said disabled voters should be able to get help delivering their absentee ballots.
“If someone is bedridden, you know, unable to leave their home- someone can’t even take their ballot to the mailbox for them,” she said of a law recently passed in the state, regulating the absentee process. “So, that really disenfranchises those voters.”
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