Alabama’s top election official announced on Monday that the state has developed a new election integrity database designed to maintain clean and accurate voter rolls.
“We are the first state in the nation to implement a system like this,” Secretary of State Wes Allen said during a press conference. “I am confident that we … will have the cleanest voter rolls that we have ever had.”
Known as the Alabama Voter Integrity Database (AVID), the new system relies upon coordination with several entities that work collectively to ensure Alabama’s voter registration lists don’t include ineligible voters, such as those who have moved or are deceased. According to a fact sheet released by Allen’s office, two of these entities include the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) and the U.S. Postal Service’s National Change of Address list.
While the former coordinates with Allen’s office to identify Alabama voters “who have moved and obtained a driver’s license or non-driver ID in another state,” the latter’s data is compared with the state’s existing voter registration lists to pinpoint voters who have moved outside of the state. As of Sept. 18, Allen’s office had used ALEA’s data to identify more than 8,000 registered voters who received driver’s licenses from other states and used USPS’s data to identify “more than 30,000 active registered voters” who no longer live in Alabama.