Category: 2020 election
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Contributors to U.S. Senate Candidates
Candidates in this year’s race for the U.S. Senate on Feb. 20 updated the lists of their contributors leading up to the March 3 primary elections in Alabama. Following are contributions of $5,000 and up for each candidate. The information comes from the Federal Election Commission database. Read more.
Jeff Sessions Leads the Republican Pack in Contributions This Year Toward Senate Nomination Race
Jeff Sessions has collected almost a half million dollars in contributions in 2020 as he campaigns to reclaim the U.S. Senate seat he held for two decades before resigning to become U.S. attorney general.
Reports filed Thursday with the Federal Elections Commission showed Sessions with net contributions of $446,866 from Jan. 1 to Feb. 12, far outdistancing six opponents in the March 3 Republican primary for the Senate.
Democrat Doug Jones, the incumbent who is unopposed for the Democratic nomination, led all candidates with contributions of $2.43 million during the first 43 days of this year. Read more.
Contributors to U.S. Senate Candidates.
Some Prisoners Invited to Vote by Absentee Ballot for the First Time This Year
Valentine’s Day took on new meaning Friday as members of five organizations continued their tour to get persons in jail and prison registered to vote by absentee ballot in the upcoming primary and beyond.
“What we did (Friday) – and have been doing – is registering eligible voters inside of our jails and our prisons,” said Rodreshia Russaw, co-executive director of The Ordinary People Society. “We have made history in 2020 where it’s actually on the absentee ballot (application) that they can register inside of prison.” Read more.
Poll: Alabamians Want Lottery, Many Undecided on Board of Education Amendment
New polling shows that Alabamians overwhelmingly want a statewide lottery and a significant percentage are undecided on how to vote on the March 3 constitutional amendment to reorganize the state board of education. Read more.
In Supreme Court Race, Most Voters Undecided
MONTGOMERY — A majority of voters are undecided on the Republican race for Supreme Court justice between incumbent Justice Greg Shaw and challenger Sen. Cam Ward, a new Alabama Daily News poll shows. Read more.
New Alabama Poll Shows Tight Race for U.S. Senate
Trump Leads Democratic Contenders in Alabama Poll
Space Set Aside for Absentee Voting at Downtown Birmingham Courthouse
Jefferson County has prepared a new space at the courthouse for persons to cast absentee ballots for the March 3 presidential primaries. Read more.
New SPLC Report Claims Voter Suppression ‘Alive and Well’ in Alabama
MONTGOMERY – A Southern Poverty Law Center report released Monday claims voter suppression is “alive and well” in Alabama and calls for several reform measures.
But state officials pushed back on the criticism, saying Alabama has made great gains in registering and turning out voters.
Caren Short, a senior staff attorney with SPLC, told Alabama Daily News that Alabama ranks low among Southern states in protecting voting rights.
“We make voting pretty hard and we don’t have a lot of easy reforms that could make voting simple for people,” Short said. Read more.
