A Tallapoosa County provisional ballot not counted because the voter wasn’t on the voters’ list was used by the Alabama Republican Party to declare in the Alabama Senate District 27 Republican primary.
Now the winner between Jay Hovey and three-term incumbent Tom Whatley will be determined ‘by lot’ or game of chance this week.
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