AG Steve Marshall: Left using the pandemic ‘as a way of pushing an agenda,’ Legislature may need to look at absentee voting

With early voting and other election processes underway around the country, including in Alabama, the left appears to be mobilized and attempting to gain an advantage from the rules in place.

Some of those rules have been implemented out of the pandemic’s fallout to prevent further spread of the virus.

Monday, during an interview with Mobile radio FM Talk 106.5’s “The Jeff Poor Show,” Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said he had noticed that trend. He said it was “late in the game” regarding next month’s general election, but further action from organizations sympathetic to the left could not be ruled out.

“I guess I’ve quit completely predicting what the left would do,” he said. “They’ve clearly used the events of this pandemic as a way of pushing an agenda that they’ve been trying to do for quite some time. But the reality is that I think the probate judges in both Mobile and Jefferson County were not prohibited from being able to open those courthouses Saturday — although that seems to be something to my awareness is a little bit unprecedented. I could see something being filed, but at this point in time, it is so late in the game, I really don’t know.”

Marshall suggested the Alabama Legislature may revisit the voting processes that took place in the future but maintained his role was to help protect the integrity of the election.

“I do think that clearly, we’ve significant numbers of individuals use the absentee ballots to cast a vote in a general election compared to years past,” Marshall continued. “I do think that this upcoming legislative session, as we kind of look at the pandemic and what has been the consequences of that, I would not be surprised if the legislative body looked a little bit about where we are on voting and how it is taking place. Again, from my perspective, make sure we’re doing everything we can to uphold the integrity of the election and not allow people to be able to use alternative means to be able to vote in ways that is inappropriate or unlawful.”

@Jeff_Poor is a graduate of Auburn University and the University of South Alabama, the editor of Breitbart TV, a columnist for Mobile’s Lagniappe Weekly, and host of Mobile’s “The Jeff Poor Show” from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. on FM Talk 106.5.