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AL SOS goes after "illegal" crossover voters who, um, didn't vote.
Repugs seem to be infinitely resourceful when it comes to suppressing Dem votes. If only they applied half so much creative energy to helping the counrty !
Congresswoman, Alabama Secretary of State are having a little fight on Twitter
Posted November 2, 2017 at 3:06 PM
By Kyle Whitmire
kwhitmire@al.com
Rep. Terri Sewell and Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill traded accusations on Twitter Thursday, after a Jefferson County probate judge said none of the voters identified by Merrill's office as possible illegal crossover voters had ever even attempted to vote in the runoff election.
Merrill's office, which oversees elections in Alabama, sent more than 600 names to probate judges throughout the state. Those voters, Merrill said, had potentially voted illegally in the September runoff between Republicans Roy Moore and Luther Strange. However, local officials determined that most, if not all of those names, had been misidentified as crossover voters because of how pollworkers had kept their records.
Merrill has been on the defensive ever since, and Sewell sent him a letter accusing his office of voter intimidation, a claim Merrill called "hilarious."
On Thursday, that dispute spilled over on Twitter with each official lobbing accusations and snarky replies at the other.
You can read that full exchange below.
more: http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/11/congresswoman_alabama_secretar.html
Posted November 2, 2017 at 3:06 PM
By Kyle Whitmire
kwhitmire@al.com
Rep. Terri Sewell and Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill traded accusations on Twitter Thursday, after a Jefferson County probate judge said none of the voters identified by Merrill's office as possible illegal crossover voters had ever even attempted to vote in the runoff election.
Merrill's office, which oversees elections in Alabama, sent more than 600 names to probate judges throughout the state. Those voters, Merrill said, had potentially voted illegally in the September runoff between Republicans Roy Moore and Luther Strange. However, local officials determined that most, if not all of those names, had been misidentified as crossover voters because of how pollworkers had kept their records.
Merrill has been on the defensive ever since, and Sewell sent him a letter accusing his office of voter intimidation, a claim Merrill called "hilarious."
On Thursday, that dispute spilled over on Twitter with each official lobbing accusations and snarky replies at the other.
You can read that full exchange below.
more: http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/11/congresswoman_alabama_secretar.html