On Monday, the secretary of state announced a first-in-the-nation system called AVID, short for the Alabama Voter Integrity Database, which was developed in Alabama over the last eight months.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Wes Allen promised while campaigning to become Alabama’s secretary of state that, should he be elected, he would immediately pull the state out of ERIC, the Electronic Registration Information Center.
ERIC provides reports to states of voters that have died, moved, possible duplicate registrations, and voters who have potentially voted twice. AVID will essentially do the same thing, but all the data will be kept in-state. Allen said the system is Alabama-based and no information is submitted to a private entity like ERIC. He called the system’s data secure and said it is maintained on a computer server owned by the State of Alabama.
First, Allen’s office has formed a cooperative agreement with the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency to identify registered voters in Alabama who have moved and obtained a driver’s license or non-driver ID in another state. Third, Allen says Alabama is building partnerships with other states to compare each others’ voter lists. The memorandum of understanding is now in place with each state that borders Alabama, as well as Arkansas and Allen expects reach agreements with other states in the future.
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