Alabama is one of the several states in the United States heading to the polls on Tuesday for primary elections.But this primary season has an unexpected hiccup for voters in the deep-red southern state. Some may have to return to the ballot box in a few months.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listFour of the state’s congressional districts are expected to hold special primaries in August, as part of a nationwide battle over redistricting.President Donald Trump has pushed Republican-led states to redraw their congressional maps in order to give the right-wing party an advantage in the November midterm elections.At stake is control over the US House of Representatives. Each congressional district represents one seat in the House, where Republicans currently hold a slim majority.Just this month, the Supreme Court issued a decision that clears the way for Alabama to install a congressional map that had been rejected in 2023 for diluting the power of Black voters.That map would rearrange the four congressional districts in the state’s south, clustering many of the state’s Democratic voters into a single district, rather than two.Shortly after the court’s decision, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey announced the special primary elections in the four districts, to allow for the new map to be implemented.But the originally scheduled primaries are still unfolding in those districts on Tuesday, as are other national and statewide races. Here’s what you should know about the Alabama primaries: Alabama Governor Kay Ivey is ineligib …
