The Alabama legislature adjourned for the year on May 20 at two minutes before midnight. The entire 2013 session only passed on election law bill, to provide for easier absentee voting for emergency relief workers during a natural disaster.

Bills that failed to pass include Senator Cam Ward’s ballot access bill; a bill for election-day registration; a bill to provide that voter registration forms ask voters to choose a party (which would enable parties to close their primaries if they wished to); to provide that write-ins should not be counted unless the write-in candidate might have won the election; to eliminate run-off primaries if someone received at least 35% of the vote; and many others of less interest.