Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall announced the arrest of Terry Andrew Heflin, the Democratic candidate for District 5 of the Clay County Commission, on seven felony counts of voter fraud.
Heflin, 45, a resident of Clay County, was charged with seven counts of unlawful use of absentee ballots. The indictment alleges that Heflin falsified applications to vote absentee for multiple people and then used those individuals' 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 ten years in prison.
Heflin turned himself in to the Clay County Sheriff’s Office and is currently being held at the Clay County jail.
The case is being prosecuted by the Attorney General’s Special Prosecutions Division. No further information about the investigation or about Heflin’s alleged crimes may be released at this time.
An arrest warrant is merely an accusation. The defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.