Alabama state reps. call on governor to expand voting
Source: Associated Press
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — State representatives and civil rights groups in Alabama are calling on the state’s governor to expand voting options ahead of November’s general elections because of the health risk to voters.
State Rep. Kirk Hatcher, a Democrat, made the plea to Gov. Kay Ivey and the secretary of state in front of the Alabama State House on Thursday, calling for an early voting to start Oct. 6, more polling locations, mail-in voting, and no-excuse absentee voting, The Montgomery Advertiser reported.
Hatcher, who was joined at the news conference by State Rep. Tashina Morris and NAACP Metro Montgomery President Rayford Mack, said it was not “a stretch to see and predict how fragile” voting will be in the upcoming election with calls he and Morris are getting from constituents worried about the safety of voting in the pandemic.
Secretary of State John Merrill told the newspaper he does not have authority to execute Hatcher’s proposals, and said it would “take an act of the Alabama Legislature to make that available.”
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