Alabama Supreme Court issues late night stay blocking preservation of Tuesdays digital vote records

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13. If there are state and Fed laws saying to preserve the vote count........how it that the AL

SC can ignore this?? sigh.



.......This is a real-time snapshot of how partisans hijack elections. The arguments put forth by Merrill’s attorneys are meant to sound neutral and technical, when actually they have explicit partisan conflicts of interest. These arguments clearly paper over the fact that the state has no intention of using best practices to ensure transparent vote counts, just as the state is willfully ignoring state and federal law to preserve all election materials as a public record.

Alabama has a long history of suppressing the vote, including the past decade, in which the GOP has used a menu of tactics from extreme gerrymandering to toughening ID requirements to get a ballot—and then closing the state offices that issue those IDs. But this last-minute intervention by the Alabama Supreme Court to muddy the vote count in a U.S. Senate race where a former chief justice is a candidate breaks new boundaries.