Rep. Mo Brooks may have hit a snag when casting a ballot in Tuesday’s hotly contested Alabama GOP Senate primary because his voter registration status is listed as “inactive,” according to a state database.
Brooks is one of three Republicans vying for Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ old U.S. Senate seat against incumbent Sen. Luther Strange and ex-state Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore. Both Strange and Moore were listed as active voters in the state database.
A representative of Brooks did not immediately respond to the Washington Examiner‘s request for comment.
Brooks was not the only politician to encounter a problem in Tuesday’s election, with Alabama state Rep. Patricia Todd also considered inactive.
Todd took to social media to urge people not to let their “inactive” status stop them from having their say on the high-profile race.
“If you are on the inactive list, they should give you an opportunity to update your voter file (even if nothing has changed) and then they should give you a ballot,” Todd wrote on Facebook. “This is screwed up! The Sec. of State office said they sent out postcards to every voter, I never got one and neither did my wife. I asked several other folks and they never received one.”
Inactive status should not prevent a resident from voting unless they have been marked as inactive for two federal elections or four years, Clay Helms, supervisor of voter registration with the Alabama Secretary of State’s office, told AL.com.
The polls close Tuesday at 8 p.m. ET.
