A day after being sworn in, Alabama's new Secretary of State, Wes Allen sent a letter to the Electronic Registration Information Center saying the state will no longer participate in the sharing of voter registration data.
Alabama's new secretary of state announced the state's withdrawal Tuesday from a 32-state voter registration partnership, a data-sharing effort that was designed to maintain accurate voter rolls but has sometimes become the target of conservative ire and conspiracy theories.
"I made a promise to the people of Alabama that ending our state's relationship with the ERIC organization would be my first official act as Secretary of State," Allen said in a statement. The letter said that Alabama would immediately cease transmitting data. "Providing the private information of Alabama citizens, including underage minors, to an out of state organization is troubling to me and to people that I heard from as I traveled the state for the last 20 months," Allen said.
In November, former Secretary of State John Merrill criticized Allen's intent to withdraw. He said then that ERIC provides information that Alabama couldn't otherwise access — such as other states' voter registration and motorist driver's license records — and has been a crucial tool for maintaining voting rolls.
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