New: Alabama's most populous county is now doing a public outreach campaign and trying to contact absentee voters who received a witness signature waiver with their ballots that a court later invalidated buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
We reported this weekend about concerns voting rights groups raised re: waivers sent to absentee voters in Jefferson Co: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
On Monday, the county put out a press release telling voters to call if they sent the waiver on/after Oct. 14: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
On Monday, the county put out a press release telling voters to call if they sent the waiver on/after Oct. 14: buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
The official managing absentee voting in Jefferson Co. said they had a plan to help voters who mailed the witness waiver after a court invalidated it. Ala. SoS John Merrill warned ballots postmarked 10/14 or later w/out witnesses will not be counted buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
The situation in Jefferson Co. underscored the uncertainty local election officials have faced as courts continued to rule on election practices after voting began — a voting rights lawyer prev. said Jefferson Co. had been trying to do the right thing buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetil…
Here's the announcement from Jefferson Co., which has the phone number voters can call if they're worried they missed the Oct. 13 cutoff to use a witness signature waiver for their ballot: jccal.org/Default.asp?ID…
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