HUNTSVILLE —Secretary of State Wes Allen emphasized his work to improve election integrity and security across Alabama during remarks at the Madison County Republican Men's Club monthly meeting on Saturday.
Allen, who is running to become the state's next lieutenant governor, told attendees that securing elections was a top priority upon first taking office in January 2023.
"Serving as your Secretary of State, I have fought hard to fortify elections and to make sure we have the strongest and most clean and most accurate voter file in the country," Allen said. "We've done so much work in the area of election integrity. When I campaigned to be your secretary of state, from this group up here, election integrity is important, and we went straight to work."
"We want to make sure we'll always have paper ballots when we vote. Make sure that we'll always have tabulators that are not connected to the internet to make sure that we are banning absentee ballot fraud and harvesting."
Allen touted arrests and indictments of individuals who violated Alabama's election laws, while noting the significant number of non-citizens recently removed from the state voter file at his direction.
"We've got three trials set in Phenix City. Three indictments out of Frisco City. Trials set in Mobile. Convictions in Clay County," he stated. "On and on to clean our voter file, to make sure there are no non-citizens on our voter file. Only American citizens should be voting in our elections. Nobody else in this race can claim all this work. We identified 186 non-citizens on the voter file just recently, 25 of which had voted, two of which already have been indicted."
Allen added, "The work continues."
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