Adams discussed three parts of his book dealing with Alabama – its history of voter fraud, its inflated voter registration rolls and its attempt to enact a voter identification law. Adams cited Perry and Hale counties, both of which have a history of voter fraud – particularly with respect to absentee voting. He said “wranglers” have filled out absentee ballots in local elections and coerced residents to sign them “by the hundreds.” The state Attorney General’s Office investigated and eventually charged three local officials in 2008 with voter fraud. Acting on his own, Hale County Circuit Judge Marvin Wiggins, who was related to the defendants, quashed search warrants in the case. The Judicial Inquiry Commission later brought judicial ethics charges against the judge. Adams said some 200 people cheered the criminal defendants at their arraignment and held signs and sang songs harkening to the civil rights movement. It was a repugnant appropriation of that just cause, he said, noting that all three ultimately admitted guilt. “The pled guilty after they stole and dishonored that noble history,” he said. ……There is a remedy, Adams said. The Motor Voter law passed in the Clinton administration has a little-known provision allowing private citizens to sue in order to clean up voting rolls. Adams’ legal foundation currently has lawsuit pending in Indiana, Ohio and two in Mississippi. “When I’m done with Mississippi, I’m coming to Alabama,” he said.
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