McAdory v. Alabama Democratic Party

The Alabama Democratic Party (“Party”) has offered two reasons why it was authorized to dismiss Lawrence MeAdory’s contest of an election that he lost by two votes: (1) McAdory submitted improperly obtained evidence of invalid absentee ballots, including evidence that convicted felons had cast absentee ballots and (2) McAdory did not timely file a proper statement of election contest. The main opinion addresses the Party’s first reason. However, I see no reason to address that issue, because the Party was authorized to dismiss Lawrence McAdoyy’s election contest because he did not, within the…