State Auditor Andrew Sorrell, who is also a candidate for Alabama Secretary of State in 2026, believes a recent election controversy in the state is proof that a new election security division is needed.

Sorrell has been campaigning on the issue, calling for the new division to be a part of the Secretary of State’s office.

“Other states have election integrity divisions, but Alabama does not,” Sorrell’s campaign website argues. “I will create a new division whose sole responsibility is cleaning up voter rolls, investigating fraud, and hardening our election system against cheating and manipulation, Many complaints of election fraud happen each election cycle, and it is important that we have an adequate size staff to investigate these claims.”

Sorrell argued that the recent finding of e

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