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HUNTSVILLE, AL -- Machines are rejecting ballots across the state because of voters' tempers, according to Madison County Probate Judge Tommy Ragland. "Voters are so angry, they're taking their anger out with the ballot and the pencil," Ragland said. "They're writing so hard, it's poking through and the machine is kicking it out." Share Tweet 11 Comments Ragland said he spent part of today at area voting precincts and saw multiple voters bearing down so hard their pencils caused raised lines on the back of the ballot. That warps the ballot, causing the machine to reject it, he said. "Voters...

MONTGOMERY -- Federal investigators told legislative leaders Thursday they are investigating corruption revolving around gambling and the bingo bill passed by the Senate earlier this week. .... Legislators said they were given scant details about the status of the investigation other than that the focus was on bingo. "They were very vague but they said there was substantial evidence of public corruption on the bingo issue," said Senate Minority Leader Jabo Waggoner, R-Vestavia Hills. Waggoner said the federal officials told the lawmakers the investigation "was not a fishing expedition." House Minority Leader, Rep. Mike Hubbard, R-Auburn, said most of the...