"It's always something" - a new wrinkle in Alabama elections

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The recent Alabama law prohibiting "crossover voting" in primary runoffs - voting in one party's primary and then switching to vote in the other party's runoff - just hit a weird bump in the road.

State Rep. John Knight, D-Montgomery, got a surprise when he went to vote in the Democratic runoff at Alabama State University today.

Knight, who is in a runoff with Sen. David Burkette for the Democratic nomination in Senate District 26, was told he could not vote in the Democratic runoff because he had voted in the Republican primary on June 5.

"Which is crazy," Knight said. "I was a candidate."

Knight said the chief inspector at the ASU polling place said other voters had experienced the same mix-up.

Read the rest at: https://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2018/07/democratic_rep_john_knight_han.html#incart_river_index


A commenter pointed out that a Republican ballot at Alabama State University (HBCU) would be like getting "tofu in a KFC box!"


John Knight at ASU.




Secretary of State confirms Rep. John Knight's voting record 'altered'

Rep. John Knight's voting record was changed to show the Democratic Senate candidate voted Republican in the June 5 primary, according to Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill.

"Apparently that’s what happened," Merrill said when asked if Knight's record was changed. "At some point it had to be altered because he was shown as a Republican. I can assure you having served with John Knight in the Legislature that he’s not a Republican. ... We'll find out why it happened."