The Alabama Secretary of State has launched an investigation into voter fraud in the Alabama Senate special election after seeing a viral video of a Democratic Doug Jones supporter seemingly admitting that people from all over the country came to vote for Jones.
In the video, a Fox 10 journalist reporting live asked a jubilant Doug Jones supporter at an election night party why he is excited to see his candidate win.
“Because, we came here all the way from different parts of the country as part of our fellowship, and all of us pitched in to vote and canvas together, and we got our boy elected!” the man responds.
Only U.S. citizens living in Alabama and registered to vote could legally vote in the Alabama Senate election, raising concerns that people may have voted illegally in the contentious election.
Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill is currently attempting to find the man who was interviewed and ask him about what he meant by his response.
Merill noted that there is yet no concrete evidence that voter fraud took place.
“We don’t have any evidence of people doing that, our numbers do not indicate that has happened, but when you have someone actually recorded on television saying that they voted, and that’s what he said, then we’ve got to get to the bottom of that,” said Merrill.
Alabama has some of the most stringent voting laws in the United States. Every voter is required to show a government-issued photo ID in order to cast a vote.
The 674 suspects broke a new Alabama law which prohibits voters from casting ballots for primaries for more than one party. Upon further investigation, 140 cases were confirmed, while the rest were ruled out as errors. Merill said charges could not be pressed because probate judges would not recommend a single case to prosecutors.
Democratic Alabama probate judge Alan King was appointed to President Donald Trump’s Election Integrity Commission but has criticized its efforts at uncovering voter fraud.