In Alabama, you can vote without ID if you know some election officials

It helps to know someone at the polls for Alabama voters with no photo identification.

Or maybe it’s the other way around.

Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange announced Friday that a ruling last week in a lawsuit against the state challenging voter ID provisions will still allow anyone without a valid photo ID to cast a ballot as long as at least two election officials can positively identify them as a qualified voter.

The suit, filed by Greater Birmingham Ministries and the Alabama State Conference of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, alleges Alabama violated the U.S. Constitution and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in enacting the photo ID requirement to vote. The group calls Alabama’s photo ID law suppressive and contends it “imposes significant and disproportionate burdens on African-American and Latino voters in the state,” states a case update posted in December on the NAACP website.