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As the 2024 election approaches, here's what to know about ballot tracking, vote-by-mail deadlines, and finding your polling site in Alabama.
Feb. 17—Alabama Senate Republicans approved legislation limiting the assistance available to absentee voters Tuesday, Feb. 13. The bill's sponsor, local delegate Sen. Garlan Gudger, said the ...
Alabama, a Republican stronghold, is traditionally not a state that votes heavily by mail. In 2022, just over 45,000 voters cast absentee ballots, accounting for roughly 3% of all the state's ballots.
This election coincided with the 2020 U.S. Senate election in Alabama, where incumbent Democrat Doug Jones – who was elected by a 21,924 vote margin in a 2017 special election – ran for a full six-year term but was defeated by Republican football coach Tommy Tuberville. Despite losing, Jones outperformed Biden by 5.1 percentage points.
Vote By Mail – Absentee Voting Information from Rock the Vote; Everything you need to know to vote Tool to request absentee ballots, and explanations, from Vote.org "Absentee and Mail Voting Policies in Effect for the 2020 Election", Ncsl.org, National Conference of State Legislatures; Changes due to Covid-19 from Ballotpedia
The new Alabama law, originally known as Senate Bill 1, makes it illegal to distribute an absentee ballot application that is prefilled with information such as the voter’s name or to return ...
Straight-ticket voting options differ from state to state. States that have a straight-ticket voting option include Alabama, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Oklahoma, and South Carolina; many other states had straight-ticket options before repealing them.
Alabama did not begin consistently tracking absentee votes until 2020, but in each election after the 2020 General Election, the number of statewide absentee ballots have been between 3 and 5%.