Secretary of State John Merrill announced that two Alabamians had been named to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission’s Local Leadership Council (LLC).
James Tatum, Probate Judge of Bullock County, and Andrea LeCroy, Probate Judge of Marshall County, will serve as Alabama’s representatives on the LLC.
The LLC is a federal advisory board that will focus almost exclusively on the responsibilities of local election officials. The council will consist of two members from each state to ensure geographic diversity, objectivity, and balance.
According to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) website, the EAC established the Local Leadership Council on June 8, 2021. The board is comprised up of 100 local election officials who are current or former officers in each state’s local election official association. The advisory board gives recommendations to the EAC on topics like voter registration and voter list maintenance, voting system user practices, ballot administration, processing, accounting, canvassing, auditing and testing of ballots, and certification of results.
