The chairman of Alabama’s Perry County Commission was indicted on felony and misdemeanor voter fraud charges in connection to the midterm primary and general elections, officials said.
Albert Turner Jr., the official who is also son of a well-known civil rights activist, was charged with voting multiple times in Alabama’s primary elections in the spring of 2022 and for allegedly ballot harvesting during the Nov. 8 midterm elections, said a joint news release from Alabama’s secretary of state, John H. Merrill, and Fourth Judicial Circuit District Attorney Michael Jackson issued on Wednesday.
Turner was allegedly caught inserting multiples ballots into a voting machine in May during the Alabama Democratic primary, Jackson said. It’s not clear what candidates he submitted the ballots for….