Another day, another Democrat gets caught stuffing the ballot boxes. Perry County Commission Chairman Albert Turner, Jr., the son of a leading civil rights leader in Alabama, has been charged with voting more than once and harvesting hundreds of ballots in two separate elections in May and November of 2022.
District Attorney Michael Jackson told reporters:
“He was there most of the day stuffing filled-out ballots in favor of the candidates he was supporting. Witnesses came forward, and we felt we had enough to present to a Perry County grand jury.”
Jackson and Merrill did not speak to the specific races in which Turner is accused of trying to influence. They said it’s too soon to know if those races could be impacted by the results of the ongoing investigation and Merrill said other people could be charged.
Jackson said the investigation is being turned over to the Alabama Attorney General’s Office to avoid any possible conflict of interest.
Jackson, who has been district attorney since 2004, lost the district attorney’s race in May to Robert H. Turner Jr., who is Albert Turner’s first cousin.
“As you know the Black Belt was the heart of the Voting Rights Act,’’ Jackson said.
Indeed, DA Jackson, as well as Commissioner Turner, are black, and it could be ironic that he lost the race because another Black man committed voter fraud that could have decided the race.
Turner wrote in a text message to the Associated Press:
“I am not concerned about any charge he has announced and I will not waste any energy on political theatre. It is mighty funny that Little Mike waited until he was leaving office to make his charge because he knows he can’t prove his case.”
Jackson also claimed that Turner was stuffing numerous ballots and putting them through the machine.
“He was stuffing the machine with the ballots that he had already filled out for the folks he was supporting. He did that for a good little while, and he had some folks distracting the poll watchers,” Jackson said.
But we all know this is impossible, that it could never happen, and that you’re a racist for believing this story, right?
As an aside, Turner’s famous parents, Albert Turner, Sr. and Evelyn H. Turner, were charged with voter fraud in 1985 and unsuccessfully prosecuted by future Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who was a district attorney at the time.
Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill said:
“Since January 19, 2015, we have worked extraordinarily hard to make it easy to vote and hard to cheat in Alabama. While the accused is innocent until proven guilty, it is important to know that this incident, just like the other 1,805 incidents we have investigated over the last eight years, will receive the full attention of this office as we confirm for the people for the State of Alabama that we are the gold standard for election administration In the United States.”
It must be noted that Merrill has gotten seven convictions for voter fraud that saw the overturning of 3 elections.
