Red-state elections officials balk at voter registration outreach | #elections | #alabama
A day after taking office in January, Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen withdrew his state from the Electronic Registration Information Center, an interstate data-sharing compact aimed at helping states keep clean voter rolls. Asked about the move a few days later by a conservative radio host, Allen, a Republican, at first talked about privacy […]
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New voter roll system unveiled after ERIC withdrawal | #elections | #alabama
This story is republished from the Alabama Reflector. Read the original article. Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen Monday said the state would launch its own database of registered voters after withdrawing from a national one earlier this year. Allen unveiled the Alabama Voter Integrity Database, or AVID, to manage the state’s registered voter rolls, […]
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NC GOP blocks move that might increase turnout | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
You would think that the political party seeking to make a voter ID requirement part of the North Carolina Constitution would support a low-cost way to ensure the accuracy of the state’s voter rolls. But that’s not the case. NC Newsline reported last week that the proposed House and Senate budgets in the Republican-controlled General […]
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Why Republican-led states keep leaving a group that verifies voter rolls | #republicans | #Alabama | #GOP
Eight Republican-led states this year left an interstate cooperative that seeks to maintain accurate voter registration rolls, and three more may join them — a move that election security experts say is fueled by conspiracy theories. Earlier this month, Virginia’s top election official said the state would become the latest to stop participating in the […]
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