Alabama: “Local District Attorneys will decide if hundreds of accused crossover voters will be prosecuted”

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Nearly 700 Alabama voters could be facing up to 10 years in prison and thousands of dollars in fines. Their crime? Voting in the wrong runoff election.

Just seven lines of legal code adopted last year, makes all the difference.

It’s the Crossover Voting Ban, that makes it illegal for someone who votes in one party’s primary to vote in the runoff of another party. The first test of the law was the recent special election primary to replace Jeff Sessions’ Senate Seat.

Over the weekend, Secretary of State John Merrill released the number of violators of the law.

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