A follow up from earlier coverage on the blog:

Former Tuscaloosa City Board of Education member Kelly Horwitz has lost her court battle contesting the 2013 election results.

Horwitz claimed that opponent Cason Kirby was unfairly elected by members of the University of Alabama’s Greek organizations that practice bloc voting in campus and local elections….

Some of the people who cast illegal votes and didn’t testify could face felony charges, he said. Of the dozens of people that her legal team subpoenaed to appear in court Tuesday, 41 showed up to testify. Twenty-two testified that they voted for Kirby and six testified that they probably did, saying that they were “85 or 90 percent sure.” A few said they didn’t remember at all, and some invoked their Fifth Amendment right to not provide incriminating testimony….

One woman said that an executive committee member of her sorority asked members to register to vote and encouraged them to vote for Kirby. She said she can’t remember how she voted.

“I genuinely do not remember,” she said. “We were asked to by our sorority and we were told that we were voting for Cason Kirby. I wouldn’t have known anything about the election if they hadn’t said anything. I know I was fed up with being told what to do, it’s possible that I went and voted for the other person. I honestly can’t remember.”

A man who voted for Kirby testified that he and several friends registered to vote using a friend’s address on University Avenue.
“It was stupid and ignorant, and I regret doing it,” he said. “We all filed from his house, I didn’t know it was against the law, but obviously it was.”