Joe Biden says he isn't looking for a cold war with China, and then a reporter asks if he's compromised by family business in China. What a leader the impaired puppet president is. Some states are trying to protect their voters and their election systems, and Alabama s Secretary of State Wes Allen says he wants the state of Alabama to withdraw from the voter registration group ERIC.
00:13:36.660We must keep it, uh, and make sure that we do not have any kind of voter fraud at the polls.
00:13:42.240Uh, I think if you look at, uh, the polling on that, uh, particular issue, it's very, very
00:13:47.560high, not only among conservatives, but, but also among those in the Democratic party as well.
00:13:52.680So people want to make sure that when they walk in and they present that ID, they say who they, they show, they say they are.
00:13:59.400And we're committed to making sure that we don't back up an inch on photo identification and keeping photo voter identification.
00:14:05.900It's a must to prevent fraud on election day.
00:14:09.520I have to say, Wes, in listening to you, you've got control of your voter rolls.
00:14:15.200You've got, uh, you're not allowing access from anyone else to the information, uh, the voter information, the information about your citizens and including, and perhaps most especially, uh, minor children.
00:14:29.400Uh, uh, getting that data to them, uh, this, and you've got voter identification, paper ballots, and, uh, only other area I can ask you about, and you've already said that you're not, you're going to keep having election days, not months, uh, in the great state of Alabama.
00:14:47.500The only other question I would have is, do you have central, uh, counting or do you have precinct counting?
00:15:05.320And then the 35th precinct, that last precinct was what we call provisional, uh, voting, provisional ballots.
00:15:11.960Um, but everywhere is set up in a precinct style.
00:15:15.220Uh, so they go to their, they go, they're drawn out in lines or every 10 years.
00:15:20.140And when we do the census and new redistricting, and so it's a set up in a precinct style voting.
00:15:25.080And you've, uh, you've not had problems as a result because, uh, states around the, as you well know, states around the country who've gone to central, uh, voting that is bringing in to one, one massive data center, uh, accounting center, tabulation center.
00:15:46.200Uh, it's just, it's just rife with, uh, the potential for corruption.
00:15:55.080Yeah, so, like, again, we, we do it right in Alabama and, you know, I've got relationships and know a bunch of our probate judges all over our state and those circuit clerks that attend to our absentee, uh, balloting and, of course, the shares, which are in charge of the custody of the returns and custody of the ballots and record record of elections.
00:16:13.980Uh, so, uh, you know, they do a good job and we.
00:16:18.180Count those ballots at the end of the night when the polls close at 7 o'clock and then those counties all throughout Alabama.
00:16:24.820Send those returns back to the Secretary of State's office and the good thing about Alabama, unless it's just an extremely, extremely close election within a few votes, you're going to know who wins and loses on election night in Alabama.
00:16:39.260And I'm, I can tell you everybody, I'm sure in Pennsylvania and, uh, Georgia and Wisconsin and Michigan and, uh, and many other states would love to have the Alabama system working for them.
00:16:54.140Uh, and, uh, and, uh, I, I think that, uh, people of Alabama got to be thrilled with, uh, what they've gotten, uh, what you're preserving here.
00:17:02.680Uh, so, uh, again, our congratulations.
00:17:06.980I want to get your sense on the intervention though, uh, into state systems of, uh, of both, uh, balloting and counting.
00:17:17.520Uh, the federal government seems to be intent on getting control and influence over elections as are a number of, uh, NGOs and not for profits funded by various people, including the dreaded name, George Soros.
00:17:32.120Uh, but I'm talking about all of them, uh, is it your sense that the American people are winning against those intentions or are we losing?
00:17:43.560Well, Lou, the good thing in Alabama is, is that last year in the last legislative session, uh, I was in the legislature for a term for four years and I sponsored the bill to ban the Zuckerberg dollars coming in those private dollars coming into Alabama.
00:17:59.980Uh, and, uh, we got that bill across the finish line because we believe that private dollars did not need to be going into public offices to quote unquote, help them, uh, run our elections.
00:18:11.900And so, uh, we're very proud of that, that piece of legislation that governor Ivey signed into law, uh, last this past year in 2022, and it protects, uh, our elections process.
00:18:23.280We don't need to start down that road of letting private dollars come into public offices.
00:18:28.080One of the main things that government needs to do and should do well is run elections.
00:18:35.600Wes, I'd like to say how much, uh, I enjoyed talking with you and I appreciate you sharing your, your, your thinking, uh, with, uh, our audience.
00:18:46.080Uh, we always give our guests the last word on this show.
00:18:48.980And so if you will, you're concluding thoughts here today.
00:18:52.180Well, I would just like to, uh, just thank you Lou for having me on today.
00:18:56.880I appreciate the opportunity to come on and have a discussion with you about our elections and why it's important and why we must make sure that we do everything we can, um, to.
00:19:07.440First of all, make sure we have elections on election day and not election month.
00:19:15.880And once you start letting, um, letting that get out of your control, like we've seen in some other states, things can go bad in a hurry.
00:19:24.500And so no mass mail balloting in Alabama and all these other things that you see in some other states, uh, we're going to stand strong in Alabama with the help of our legislature and our governor and here in the secretary of state's office.
00:19:37.020Uh, and also with the help of our local elected officials, like I said earlier, those probate judges, circuit clerks and sheriffs and boards of registrars, uh, people make the difference.
00:19:45.640And, uh, and, uh, I look forward to working with them in the years to come.
00:19:49.960Well, I'm sure that, uh, that's a, a mutual feeling on the part of those, uh, those officials.
00:19:55.380Uh, Mr. Secretary of state, Wes Allen, we thank you for being with us here on the great America show.
00:20:01.860Thanks for all you're doing for the great people of Alabama.
00:20:04.400The example you're setting for everyone in this country.