Alabama will hold a special election later this year to fill the upcoming vacancy in the First U.S. House District. The date of the special election won’t be set until Congressman Jo Bonner resigns on August 15. Normally, independent candidate petitions and petitions to qualify a political party in Alabama must carry the date of the special election. However, the Secretary of State has designed petition forms for this upcoming special election that can be used now. The petition says, “We, the undersigned, are qualified electors in the State of Alabama’s First Congressional District and as such hereby request and petition that the political party known as (fill in the blank here) be included on the official ballot for the office of United States Representative for Alabama’s First Congressional district in the Special General Election to be held on a date yet to be determined to fill the vacancy in said office upon the resignation of the current office holder in the 113th Congress.”