Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill is predicting voter turnout of 28% to 32% for the primary one week from today. That would be higher than turnout for Alabama’s last two primaries during midterm ...

This is an opinion column. I’m not sure John Merrill believes his political career is over. Perhaps, only on pause. When I spoke with Merrill on Wednesday, the last of four calls we had that day, he ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Project Say Something ...

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a column here at The American Spectator entitled "We Are Governed by People Who Suck." That piece had a couple of nice features to it. First, that it was quite ...

The Alabama Democratic Party said in a statement Monday that Attorney General Steve Marshall should look at whether Secretary of State John Merrill used state tax dollars or resources in pursuit of a ...

As rumors of an extramarital affair swirled around Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill, the conservative Republican did what conservative Republicans do in times of controversy and tumult: He ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill, a prominent state Republican viewed as having higher political ambitions, said Wednesday that he will not run for any elected office next ...