Voter turnout in Alabama for Tuesday‘s general election was the lowest percentage in the state during any presidential election year since 1988. Turnout was 58.52%, according to Secretary of State Wes Allen’s office. Unofficial results from all 67 ...

As the United States awaits a winner in the presidential race between Democrat Kamala Harris and Republican Donald Trump, polls are closing, and votes are being counted. Former President Trump won Alabama for the third consecutive election on Tuesday,

In Alabama, voters use paper ballots, which are processed by optical scan machines. These machines read the marked bubbles on each ballot when they are fed into the system.

Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen Wednesday said 58.5% of registered voters cast ballots in Tuesday’s presidential election.

Voting rights advocates want Alabamians to be prepared for Election Day, but they said not everyone may understand what to expect at the polls or even if they have the right to vote. Advocacy groups and election officials have been working to get that information to the public.

Alabama shifted about 3% toward President-Elect Donald Trump in Tuesday’s election. But if unofficial returns are correct, that may have less to do with new Republican votes than a shrinking pool of Democratic ones.