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Wednesday, June 28, 2024
By Dr. Steven Taylor

Via the AP: Alabama moved entire 2024 primary to February

When the Alabama Legislature tried to make Alabama a player in presidential politics, it inadvertently moved the state’s entire primary election — not just the presidential preference primary — from June to February in 2024.

I wholly support moving the presidential preference primary to February, but it is utterly hilarious that the legislature accidentally moved the whole primary process forward!

Ken Wallis, the governor’s legal adviser, said Wednesday the final version of the legislation moving up the presidential preference primary did far more than the lawmakers intended.

“It certainly appears it has set all primary elections for the first Tuesday in February,” he said.

The state’s chief elections official, Secretary of State Nancy Worley, said she discussed the situation Wednesday with members of the state attorney general’s staff.

“Our general thinking is the Legislature would come back and clear up that date,” Worley said.

In the rush of its final meeting day on April 17, the Legislature approved a bill that was supposed to move Alabama’s presidential preference primary from being one of the last in the nation to being one of the first. In 2024, it would go from June 3 to Feb. 5

Quite frankly, since ‘08 is just House members and judges and such, having it in June is a waste anyway, because given the lack of anything interesting to vote for, nobody shows up to vote anyway.

Still, the hilarity gets better:

The Legislature left the primary runoff for state and county offices on the last Tuesday in June. That means candidates would have an agonizing runoff campaign stretching more than four months — from Feb. 5 to June 24.

Amazing–and perhaps the funniest thing I have read all day.

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