Democrats want to ditch Alabama's new crossover voting law [View all]
Some Democratic lawmakers want to repeal Alabama's new crossover voting law, saying it created rather than solved a problem and its threat of felony-level penalties will discourage voter participation.
"The right to vote is just so precious," Sen. Hank Sanders of Selma said. "And we ought not to be doing things to limit it. And we certainly ought not to be doing things to end up trying to put people in jail."
The law was in force for the first time for the Sept. 26 Republican runoff between Roy Moore and Sen. Luther Strange in the special election for the U.S. Senate.
The law prohibits voters who participate in one party's primary from crossing over and voting in the other party's runoff. So, voters in the Aug. 15 Democratic primary could not vote in the Republican runoff.
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