Republican states swore off a voting tool. Now they're scrambling to recreate it

https://www.npr.org/2023/10/20/ [login to see] /eric-investigation-follow-up-voter-data-election-integrity
Last month, Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen stood at a podium at the state capitol in Montgomery and announced what he called a novel way for his state to keep its voter lists up to date.

The program, called AVID or the Alabama Voter Integrity Database, will use federal data, as well as voting lists from five other states, to monitor when voters move, die or illegally vote in two different states in the same election.

"We are the first state in the nation to implement a system like this," he said.

But his claim is missing a lot of context.