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Wes Allen, Alabama’s secretary of state, has signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the Department of Homeland Security, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (DHS-USCIS) to gain access to the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program, a program that will be used to identify noncitizens registered to vote in Alabama.
This agreement is an additional tool to combat noncitizen voting and represents Secretary Allen’s commitment to ensuring Alabama elections are decided only by the votes of eligible U.S. citizens.
“I have been very clear that only United States citizens should be voting in our elections, which is what our Constitution, state and federal law unequivocally demand,” Allen explained. “My office plans to begin using SAVE to verify the citizenship status of registered voters in Alabama and all incoming voter registrations in the immediate future. Ensuring that only eligible United States citizens are registered to vote in Alabama is a vital step to protecting our elections.”
Allen thanks his team at the Secretary of State’s Office and President Trump’s DHS-USCIS for their hard work executing this MOA.
“I am thankful that President Trump respects the integrity of our elections and shares my zero-tolerance policy for noncitizen voting. Through the use of SAVE, my office will have greater access to noncitizen identification data than ever before,” said Allen.
Wes Allen is Alabama’s fifty-fourth secretary of state. The secretary of state is Alabama’s chief elections official. Additionally, Alabama law gives the secretary of state more than 1,000 different duties.
To learn more about the secretary of state and his responsibilities and duties visit www.sos.alabama.gov.
