John Merrill: “We want to make it easy to vote and hard to cheat in Alabama.”

If you are too sorry or lazy to get up off your rear and to go register to vote, then you don't deserve that privilege. As long as I am Secretary of State of Alabama, you are going to have to show some initiative to become a registered…

Voter confidence and voter participation is extraordinarily important.

At one time, our laws were written to reduce or eliminate minority participation in the electoral process.

It is very important to remember that, whether there was one or whether there were 10,001 convictions, it is just like refusing the right to allow someone to vote or register to vote; if you are making it difficult for them to participate…