Booths await voters at the Pennington County Administration Building during early voting on Jan. 19, 2026, for a municipal election in Rapid City, South Dakota. (Photo by Seth Tupper/South Dakota Searchlight)
With less than 30 days until primary elections, new statistics show that the number of active voters in Alabama has decreased since 2022.
Voter statistics for March that were given to the Voting Registration Advisory Board members during its meeting on Thursday show Alabama has 3.29 million active voters. This is a 17,000 person decrease from four years ago, when the state had 3.31 million active voters.
Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen said in a statement that “Alabama boasts one of the cleanest and most accurate voter files in the country.”
The state also saw an increase in inactive voters going from 392,000 in 2022 to over 500,000 last month. Voter Registration Advisory Board Chairman John Lackey said after the meeting “there are fluctuations in voter numbers at different times during elections.”
Inactive voters are still able to vote in person if they fill out the proper paperwork.
“If they show up at the polls where they’ve been voting, we let them vote, or we send them to where they need to vote, but we hand them an update from them, and just say, fill that out and go vote,” Lackey said.
Board member Sydney Dean said after the meeting voters are able to check their status by visiting the Alabama Secretary of State website.
“It’s very easy. They just put in their name and address, and actually it’ll populate even a little map that shows them where to go vote with their precinct,” she said. “When you go inactive, there’s been an issue and we’re just saying to the voter when they come into the polls, please complete an update for them because nine times out of 10, it’s a situation like that.”
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Author: Andrea Tinker