Sec of State of AL can put Pootie Putin on the state ballot where there isn’t a dang thang that the citizens of Alabama could do about it.
Not exactly. The current Alabama law says that the Alabama SOS must put on the ballot any Presidential candidate nominated by a "national party." So a more accurate formulation of your point is that the Dems or Repubs can put Putin on the ballot and neither the Alabama SOS nor the citizens of Alabama can do anything about it (except vote against him).