Letter from Lani Guinier to Hon. Jack Venable

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Legal Department General, Lani Guinier Correspondence. Letter from Lani Guinier to Hon. Jack Venable, 1982. 8e167bec-e392-ee11-be37-6045bdeb8873. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/cfba4886-180e-4575-9298-49dcad1c84bb/letter-from-lani-guinier-to-hon-jack-venable. Accessed December 06, 2025.

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July 22, L9B2

Hon. Jack B. Venable, Representative
76th District, Elmore County
301 Gilmer Avenue
P. O. Box 736
Tallassee, Alabama 36078

Dear Mr. Venable:

I am writing this letter Eo request your assistance
in obtaining information about absentee voting laws
in Alabama. Tony Richardson, who has done some pre-
liminary research on this topic, informed me of your
conversation of early today.

I understand that the Alabama Code was amended in
order to conform the absentee bal1ot laws to the
procedure for regular ballots and to S 17-8-11 which
provides for a secret ballot. We have not been able
to confirm this understanding other than through
Secretary of State Donald Siegel-mants testimony before
the House Hearings on Extension of the Voting Rights
Act. As sponsor of the 1980 amendmenEs to Title L7 ,
Chapter 10, do you have any memoranda or other material
from the bill jacket which might lndicate the intent
of the 1-egislature in making these changes? Tt would
be greatly apprecj-ated if such iriformation could be
forwarded to me.

I thank you for your efforts.

el.-t.(.t

LanI. Cululcr

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