Campaign Money
Research Campaign Financing Little-Known PACs Fund a Deluge of Ads in the Days Leading Up to the Senate Election
Government
What You Need to Know at the Polls
Campaigning Outside Polling Places Partisan Clothing Help With Voting Crossover Voting Not a Concern Verify Your Registration and Polling Place ID Needed at the Polls Report a Problem at the Polls
Candidate Profiles
Candidate Profiles Doug Jones Roy Moore
Crossover Voting Not a Concern
The crossover voting ban does NOT apply in this election. The law that went into effect this year bars people who voted in one party’s primary from flipping in the runoff and voting in the other party’s primary. But Tuesday’s election is a general election, and the law does not apply. If you voted Democratic
Help With Voting
A relative, friend, even a candidate if you ask him, can help you vote. But you cannot be assisted by your employer, an agent of your employer, or an officer or agent of your union.
Is There Life After Doug Jones for Alabama Democrats?
Win or lose, Doug Jones has done something few would have considered possible not long ago: given a candidate of the Alabama Democratic Party what appears to be a legitimate shot at winning a seat in the U.S. Senate. Jones, who faces off against Republican Roy Moore on Tuesday for the seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, is mounting a challenge to the Republican monopoly on state political power in Alabama that the GOP has been forced to take seriously. Polls suggest that Jones has a chance – a slim one, but a chance – to win. That is affirmed by most of the GOP faithful – from President Donald Trump to Steve Bannon to Gov. Kay Ivey – showing a united front for Moore, a candidate many Republicans had expressed doubts about. As the high-profile Jones-Moore race concludes, however, a question remains: Is the state seeing an election tied distinctly to Jones, his campaign and his opponent, or is the Alabama Democratic Party being revived as a political force in the deep red state? Read more.
Partisan Clothing
You can wear clothing, caps or buttons emblazoned with your candidate’s name while you are voting. But you cannot loiter, do any politicking or leave any campaign materials in the polling place.
Campaigning Outside Polling Places
Campaigning is allowed 30 feet or more from the entrance to the polling place, but no closer.
League of Women Voters’ Vote411.org, Senate race
At the League of Women Voters’ Vote411.org site, you can get biographical information and answers Doug Jones submitted to issues questions asked by the league. Roy Moore did not respond to requests for information.
Roy Moore, U.S. Senate Special Election
Name: Roy S. Moore Age: 70 Residence: Gallant Political races run: Etowah County circuit judge, 1982; district attorney, 1986; circuit judge, 1994; chief justice of Alabama, 2000 and 2012; governor, 2006 and 2010. Political offices held: Circuit judge in Etowah County, 1992-2000; chief justice of Alabama, 2000 until ousted in 2003 for refusing to remove