Alabama's Effort to Suppress Black Vote Couldn't Prevent Huge Turnout
December 14, 2017
December 14, 2017
MONTGOMERY, Alabama, Dec. 14 -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Alabama issued the following news release:
Some 1.3 million Alabamians - more than twice as many who voted in the primary - turned out to vote in Tuesday's special election to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The turnout was extraordinary because it took place in a state that has a well-documented history of trying to suppress the vote of the very group that helped propel D . . .
Some 1.3 million Alabamians - more than twice as many who voted in the primary - turned out to vote in Tuesday's special election to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The turnout was extraordinary because it took place in a state that has a well-documented history of trying to suppress the vote of the very group that helped propel D . . .