How to hold an election if the county won't deliver the voting machines
Jefferson County, Alabama, is in a financial crisis. Because a court has voided the county's occupational tax (a tax on wages), the county will not have the money to pay its workers on 21 August. But the City of Birmingham will be holding an election for the city council and school board. As the Birmingham News reports:
The county doesn't have the money to pay for personnel to deliver or test voting machines for the Aug. 25 Birmingham elections, officials said Monday.
Jefferson County has provided the tabulation machines for past municipal elections.
That means the city will have to find a way to deliver 236 voting machines for City Council and city school board elections.
[Mayor Larry] Langford said city workers will fill the void.
"We will send public works workers over to help deliver the machines to the appropriate places," he said.
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