By Alabama Public Radio
Montgomery AL – The Secretary of State's office has lost some attorneys in recent months, and that has left it without lawyers to answer questions from county voting officials. Four attorneys have left in the past two years ... two of them dismissed by Secretary of State Nancy Worley. Mac McArthur, executive director of the Alabama State Employees Association, says id the problem is the result of an exodus of SOS employees from the secretary of state's office since Worley arrived in 2003. At that time, there were about 65 workers. Only about 35 or 36 of the original employees remain. Worley denies attorneys and other employees are leaving because of dissatisfaction with her leadership. She says two of the four attorneys who left did so because they got better jobs. Worley, a Democrat, faces Republican state Auditor Beth Chapman in the Nov. 7 general election.