From The Tribune staff reports
MONTGOMERY — Former GOP candidate for governor Lindy Blanchard has filed a lawsuit over the machines that the state of Alabama uses to count votes.
Lindy Blanchard
Blanchard claims the machines can be manipulated and as such can violate the due process rights of voters. Blanchard filed the lawsuit prior to the primary election, in which she garnered only 19.24 percent of the vote. Incumbent Kay Ivey walked away with a little more than 54 percent of the vote, easily cruising past a slate of eight primary challengers.
Alabama’s voting machines lack a modem or bluetooth mechanism, which helps make them more secure, Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill has said previously.
“All our (voting) machines are custom-built. There’s no modem component. You can’t influence them through a cell phone or a landline. There’s no way they can be probed or numbers manipulated,” Merrill told AL.com after meeting with 2020 election denier Mike Lindell in 2021. Lindell claimed — without any evidence — that 100,000 votes in Alabama had been “flipped” in the 2020 general election.
Donald Trump won Alabama in a landslide in the 2020 election with 62 percent of the vote.
Blanchard filed her lawsuit on May 19, five days before the primary election.
