Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill said counties are responsible for providing precinct lists, not his office. Merrill said he does not plan to take any action in response to a request for a comprehensive list of polling places. alpolitics
Six organizations have asked Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill to publish a comprehensive, statewide list of polling places because they say some counties are not providing information voters need leading up to next Tuesday’s election.The ACLU of Alabama, Alabama Arise, Alabama Election Protection Network, Alabama Forward, Lift Our Vote, and Legal Defense Fund released a letter they wrote to Merrill on Monday. You can see the letter at the end of this article.
“We don’t have any action that we’re required to take because it’s incumbent on the counties to do their job and what they’re supposed to do,” Merrill said. “If they’ve got a grievance with the county, they need to reach out to the county, contact them directly.”on the secretary of state’s website. Voters do that by entering their name and date of birth.
The letter noted that all six counties in the sample with a majority Black population lacked all three resources -- precinct map, precinct list, and county poll locator tool. “I do know that by law we do publish the list of electors that we did in May, we publish the precincts and the addresses,” Cooper said. “We do not publish a map of those precincts but we do publish that. Secretary of State Merrill’s website is a place for voters in any county to key in information and find out where they’re supposed to vote.”“Nor have I kept up with that right now because I’m kind of buried in trying to get ready for Tuesday,” Cooper said.
Hassell said the county website links to the secretary of state’s because he said the lookup tool there is the most accurate and up-to-date way for voters to find out where they vote.
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