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The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached the U.S. state of Alabama in March 2020. As of January 10, 2022, the Alabama Department of Public Health (ADHP) reported nearly a million confirmed cases of COVID-19 (or 1 in 5 people) and 16,630 confirmed deaths. At 330 deaths per 100,000 Alabama has the highest death rate in the US along ...
Feb. 17—Alabama Senate Republicans approved legislation limiting the assistance available to absentee voters Tuesday, Feb. 13. The bill's sponsor, local delegate Sen. Garlan Gudger, said the ...
May 24—11:50 a.m. update By 11:30 a.m. 200 people had cast ballots at the Anniston City Meeting Center for the Republican and Democrat primaries. Garry Bearden, ex-Weaver mayor, said it was ...
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The 2020 election took place during the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, many states implemented measures to expand voting access. [49] [50] In particular, mail-in voting (which was seeing significantly increased use in states that already offered no-excuse absentee voting) was expanded in many states.
At the beginning of the pandemic to early June 2020, Democratic-led states had higher case rates than Republican-led states, while in the second half of 2020, Republican-led states saw higher case and death rates than states led by Democrats. As of mid-2021, states with tougher policies generally had fewer COVID cases and deaths {needs update}.
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Other states allow postal voting only in certain circumstances, though the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 has prompted further discussion about relaxing some of those restrictions. In the run up to the 2020 United States presidential election , then-President Donald Trump repeatedly asserted that mail-in voting would result in widespread fraud, and ...