Doug Jones campaign hints at legal action over Tuscaloosa absentee voting waits
An attorney for the U.S. Sen. Doug Jones campaign Thursday suggested the campaign was considering possible legal action over long lines for absentee voting in Tuscaloosa County.
In a letter dated Wednesday to Tuscaloosa Circuit Clerk Magaria Bobo, Jones campaign counsel Adam Plant accused Bobo of “suppressing qualified Tuscaloosa County voters from exercising their rights in the 2020 general election.” The letter said some voters had waited up to five hours to enter the courthouse to vote absentee, and that some had been forced to leave without getting a chance to vote.
“This is evidence that your office is not competently managing its absentee election rules,” the letter said. “No voter should face such an undue burden on their fundamental right to vote during a pandemic.”
In a phone interview early Thursday afternoon, Bobo said she had not yet seen the letter. But she said her office had received more than 13,000 absentee applications and was trying to process them. Bobo said her office had borrowed staff to get ballots completed while trying to observe social distancing guidelines.
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