Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen announced Monday that Ohio has become the ninth state to join the Alabama Voter Integrity Database.
A Memorandum of Understanding between Alabama and Ohio, which went into effect last Thursday, allows the state of Alabama to cross-check Ohio’s voter rolls with its own.
“Maintaining the cleanest and most accurate voter file in the country is a top priority of my Office. This MOU provides for the comparison of the Alabama and Ohio voter files to identify individuals registered to vote in both states,” said Allen. “When a potentially ineligible voter is discovered after this comparison occurs, the Secretary of State’s office will begin the voter removal process in accordance with state and federal law.”
The MOU describes the purpose of the two states’ agreement as to “identify duplicate registrations and instances of voting more than once in the same or similar election.”
