Alabama GOP – Dr. Angelo Mancuso, removed from Alabama HD7 GOP primary earlier this year, will appear on Lawrence County GOP ballot for party posts on May 19.
A contentious Alabama ballot dispute has taken an unexpected turn, with Dr. Angelo Mancuso set to appear on the Lawrence County Republican primary ballot for party leadership positions even after being removed earlier this year from the Republican primary for Alabama House District 7.
Mancuso. previously disqualified from the GOP ballot for the HD7 Republican primary. will now be listed as a candidate in the May 19 Lawrence County Republican primary for two internal party roles.. One of those races is against the same HD7 Republican nominee he is set to face again in November as an independent.
His name will appear on the ballot for the Lawrence County Republican Executive Committee and for the Alabama Republican State Executive Committee. In the state executive committee race, he is running against Ernie Yarbrough, the Republican nominee for HD7.
The new ballot placement follows an earlier decision by the Alabama Republican Party steering committee to disqualify Mancuso from the HD7 Republican primary.. After that ruling. Mancuso qualified to run as an independent in the November general election. where he is expected to challenge Yarbrough for the seat.
Mancuso said he had already filed and paid qualifying fees for the executive committee races before the ballots were finalized. and that his name remained on those ballots once they were printed.. He described the period after the initial disqualification as chaotic. arguing that election timing and ballot certification rules limited the ability to remove him.
“When the ballots came out, there was a big flurry of activity,” Mancuso said. He maintained that attempts were made to remove him from the ballot, but that Alabama law prevented it once ballots had been printed.
Under Alabama election procedures, once ballots are certified and printed, removing a candidate can create procedural hurdles.. County probate judges oversee election administration and ballot counting. while political parties are responsible for certifying results for internal party offices.. Mancuso suggested that even if the party were to resist certification. the counting process would still be triggered by the election administration framework.
“The probate judges said the votes have to be counted,” he said. “But the party does the certification. If they don’t certify it, then nobody wins.”
While Mancuso’s account raises questions about how internal party governance interacts with formal election administration. the Alabama Republican Party has not publicly confirmed whether it plans to refuse certification of results in the Lawrence County executive committee races.. Attempts to reach party officials for comment were not immediately successful.
The situation also produces a political contrast for voters. Mancuso will run as a Republican during the May primary for party governance roles, while at the same time running as an independent against the Republican nominee for HD7 in the November general election.
Mancuso framed the dual-track candidacy as an illustration of internal party tensions and the practical effect of eligibility decisions. He also said the dispute should be understood as a question of transparency about how candidate eligibility is determined within party structures.
“That’s the irony,” Mancuso said, pointing to the fact that he is on the Republican ballot in the primary and on the general election ballot as an independent. He said the outcome, regardless of whether he wins or loses, is likely to reveal what he views as ongoing dynamics behind the scenes.
The Lawrence County Republican primary is scheduled for May 19. Mancuso’s independent candidacy for Alabama HD7 will appear on the November general election ballot.
Alabama politics Republican primary Angelo Mancuso HD7 race Ernie Yarbrough Lawrence County GOP
so they kicked him out and now hes back on it anyway lol ok
This is exactly why nobody trusts elections anymore. They removed him and then he just shows up on the ballot again like nothing happened? That dont make any sense to me and honestly it shouldnt make sense to anyone else either.
I read that he basically paid his way back onto the ballot which is just crazy to me. Rich people always find a loophole thats just how it works in Alabama politics always has been. My uncle ran for something local years ago and got pushed out the same way, these party people just decide who they want and thats that. Not sure why anyone is surprised this kind of stuff happens all the time down here and nobody ever does anything about it.
Wait so is he a Republican or not because the article says he got kicked out of the Republican primary but now hes running as a Republican again for some committee thing but also running as an independent in November so which one is it. I am genuinely confused. Like you cant be both can you. I thought if you got disqualified that was it. My neighbor said this whole thing is because of some feud between local party people and honestly that tracks because Alabama politics is just personal grudges dressed up as policy half the time and nobody actually cares about the voters just themselves.