Alabama Republicans Want to Make a Major Change to Elections: What Will It Mean for Voters?

Alabama Republicans want to make a major change to elections: What will it mean for voters?

If the Alabama Legislature pursues the idea of closing the state’s political primaries, as suggested by Republican leaders this week, there are key decisions to make about how that would work. Under current law, Alabama does not require voters to…

Go ahead and close the primaries, Alabama

By Jeff Poor For the last 40 years, Alabama’s power structure has been grappling with accusations that party crashers are interfering with the state’s two political parties’ primaries. For most of its history, Alabama has been a one-party state, first under the Democratic Party banner and, for the last decade and a half, under the GOP banner. The 1980s brought a transitional phase in Alabama politics. Republicans were gaining numbers on Democrat…