Alabama voters find misprinted ballots, broken machines

Nov 07, 2024

At least three Alabama sites were experiencing problems with voting Tuesday morning, election officials and a civil rights organization said.

Two Jefferson County polling places, along with the entirety of St. Clair County, reported issues at the polls Election Day.

Two tabulators were broken at the Hawkins Park Recreation Center in Birmingham, delaying voting, the ACLU of Alabama said. The organization said one tabulator has been replaced by mid-morning, but officials are unsure if or when the second machine will also be replaced. In the same county, the Center Point Community Center has also reported that two of its voting machines are broken.

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In St. Clair County, voting had been extended to 9 p.m. after some voters were given inaccurate ballots earlier in the day that were missing a statewide amendment and a local one.

"This was not an oversight on our part," said Judge Andrew Weathington, probate judge of St. Clair County. "It's not something that was not checked, and we proved all these ballots months ago."

The ACLU of Alabama said voters were being asked to return and use the corrected ballots at the following polling places:

Victor Hagan is the Alabama Election Reporting Fellow for the USA TODAY Network. He can be reached at [email protected] or on X @TheVictorHagan. To support his work, subscribe to the Advertiser.