A Democrat candidate for Clay County Commission pleaded not guilty to seven voter fraud charges on Wednesday.
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced in July the arrest of Terry Andrew Heflin, the Democrat candidate for District 5 of the Clay County Commission, on seven felony counts of voter fraud.
Heflin, 45, was charged with seven counts of unlawful use of absentee ballots. Specifically, the indictment alleges that Heflin falsified applications to vote absentee for multiple people and then used those people’s names to vote for himself by absentee ballot. Each count of unlawful use of an absentee ballot is a Class C felony punishable by one year and one day to 10 years in prison.
A pretrial hearing in the case is set for September 26.
Heflin defeated Beverly Appleby Hill in the Democrat primary in April by a margin of 59% to 41%, or 141 votes to 98 votes.
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