AL.com: “But the last few times Alabama Republican Party Chairman John Wahl voted, he presented poll workers with an ID they’d never seen before.
To someone who had never seen a state employee ID, it could be mistaken for one.
But it wasn’t. It bore a state seal, a barcode and Wahl’s picture. The badge said Wahl was a media representative for State Auditor Jim Zeigler.
But when I asked the Alabama Department of Finance, which administers employee IDs, that department said it had never issued him one, nor was Wahl on the list of employees, past and present, in Zeigler’s office.
As it turns out, Wahl made the ID, he says, with Zeigler’s permission.
And now, the state’s top election official, Secretary of State John Merrill, says that badge is not a valid voter ID.
“It does not meet the standard of any voter ID requirements listed under 17-9-30,” Merrill said, citing where Alabama’s voter ID law appears in the State Code.
In another conversation, I told Wahl that I had concerns that his ID did not pass muster under the law.
“That’s a legitimate question,” Wahl said.”