Neither care about the vast spread of SARS-CoV-2 in Alabama. The dueling Republicans are bantering about whether there should be a "Pearl Harbor Investigation" (click here) of China and COVID-19. How can the two Republicans completely disregard the global pandemic and it's enormous impact on the people of Alabama. I don't see either of these men winning the US Senate seat if people are getting sick and dying while they debate whether or not if the deadly virus came from China. They are both incompetent in the well being of the people of Alabama.
NO ONE IN ALABAMA ARE ANY SAFER WITH CHINESE DEBATE!
June 16, 2020
By Daniel Jackson
A federal judge (click here) waived some of the requirements to vote absentee in Alabama ahead of the Republican runoff primary between former U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions and former football coach Tommy Tuberville as they compete to take on vulnerable Democratic Senator Doug Jones.
“Because the plaintiffs have shown that the challenged laws will likely dissuade some citizens from voting … the court finds that the burdens imposed by the challenged election laws on voters at high risk of severe complications or death from Covid-19 are not justified by the state’s interests in enforcing the laws,” U.S. District Judge Abdul Kallon wrote Monday.
In his 77-page opinion, Kallon, an Obama appointee, issued a preliminary injunction waiving the requirements that an Alabama voter seeking to cast a ballot by mail must submit a copy of their photo ID and have a notary or two witnesses sign the ballot.
The injunction also prevents the state from shutting down attempts by county election officials to allow voters to drive up to a polling location and cast a ballot via “curbside voting” in next month’s runoff race.
The waiving of absentee voting rules applies to “at least” three counties – Lee, Mobile and Jefferson – according to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, which helped bring the lawsuit challenging the restrictions....
