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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.
The law makes it illegal to distribute an absentee ballot application that is prefilled with information such as the voter’s name or to return another person’s absentee ballot application. Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen said it provides “Alabama voters with strong protection against activists who profit from the absentee elections ...
Alabama lawmakers on Tuesday gave final approval to a bill that would outlaw paid assistance with absentee ballot applications and another that would restrict diversity, equity and inclusion ...
Biden only won Jefferson County and 12 counties in the Black Belt; Trump won all other counties. 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 ...
Alabama is one of several Republican-led states imposing new limits on voter assistance. The new Alabama law, originally known as Senate Bill 1, makes it illegal to distribute an absentee ballot ...
In August 2024, Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen announced a process for purging 3,251 registered Alabama voters and referred them to the state attorney general’s office for criminal prosecution. [11] [12] In September 2024, the Department of Justice sued Alabama for violating the National Voter Registration Act.
Houston County was the last county created in the state, on February 9, 1903. [3] According to 2023 U.S. Census data, the average population of Alabama's 67 counties is 76,246, with Jefferson County as the most populous (662,895), and Greene County (7,341) the least. [7] The average land area is 756 sq mi (1,958 km 2).
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