By Richard Winger The Alabama legislature adjourned on June 4, after having failed to pass SB 221, the ballot access improvement bill. Many other election law bills also failed to pass. Several bills concerning the counting of write-in bills failed to pass. HB 451 would have required write-in candidates who want their write-ins tallied to file a declaration of candidacy; it passed the House but not the Senate. HB 503, which would have said no write-ins should be counted unless the vote-counting equipment suggests a write-in candidate might have won, made no progress at all.
HB 344, which would have …read more