How to track your absentee ballot and other things to know about voting in Alabama

How to track your absentee ballot and other things to know about voting in Alabama

Return on november 12th/ secretary of state john merrill says the surge in absentee voters this year won't delay announcing the results.

He says alabama voters will learn on election day who won and who lost in area races.

Waay31's breken terry joins us live outside of the lauderdale county probate judges office.

That's where election workers will be counting votes for the area..

Breken?

Earlier this month governor ivey ordered early absentee votes to be counted.

This means starting at 7 am on november 3rd officials here at the lauderdale county probate judges office - and similar offices throughout the state - can begin counting absentee votes.

Secretary of state john merrill told me so far they've had 280,000 absentee ballot requests and 221,000 of those have been successfully returned.

The previous record was 89,000.

So with this anticipated high voter turn out and record breaking absentee ballots being cast he said they sent extra counting machines to counties and will have extra staff on hand.

We have extra tabulators available for absentee ballots to be cast through in all 67 counties so there will be no delay in the absentee process.

Officials here at the county probate judges office and county clerks office told me they plan to work a very long day on election day and will have every vote counted.

The polls close at 7pm but if you are in line when that happens, you can still vote.

Live in flo bt waay31.

Thanks breken.

The last day to apply for an absentee ballot is tomorrow.

In madison county the probate judge is anticipating 40- thousand absentee applications by the end of the day.

10-thousand was the previous record.