Tag: voting

By Derek Major Black Enterprise Voting rights advocate Stacey Abrams said Monday that more than 750,000 residents in Georgia have requested a ballot for the state’s...

By Erica Wright The Birmingham Times  More than 500 people stood in lines that wrapped around a downtown Birmingham park for the first Saturday of in-person...

By Barnett Wright The Birmingham Times   A bipartisan group of Jefferson County (AL) Commissioners on Friday voted 4-0 to open the downtown Birmingham and Bessemer County...

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and ANGELIKI KASTANIS Associated Press Nearly 21 million Americans have already cast ballots in the 2020 election, a record-shattering avalanche of early votes driven...

By Barnett Wright The Birmingham Times  The decision whether to open the Birmingham and Bessemer Courthouses for in-person absentee voting on Saturdays is now in the...

By Alabama NewsCenter Staff As one who was beaten and bloodied pursuing the right to vote for Black Americans, the late John Lewis understood as...

By Barnett Wright The Birmingham Times  There will be no in-person absentee voting on Saturday, October 17 at the Jefferson County Courthouse, a probate court judge...

Aaron Morrison Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — For the Rev. Jimmy Gates Sr., the 2008 presidential election year was one to remember — and not...

By Erica Wright The Birmingham Times  Area elected officials and clergy are encouraging Jefferson County residents to cast their ballots ahead of the November 3...

By Barnett Wright The Birmingham Times  Jefferson County has been hit with a “deluge” of in-person absentee voters that has caused complaints and lines stretching from...