Wes Allen,
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Wes Allen was sworn in as Alabama’s 54th Secretary of State on January 16, 2023. A lifelong Republican, he served as Pike County’s Probate Judge for nearly a decade before being elected to serve District 89 in the Alabama House of Representatives. As Alabama’s Chief Elections Official, Wes works closely with local officials across the state to ensure that Alabama’s elections remain the most secure in the nation.
Just minutes after taking the Oath of Office, he kept his first campaign promise by signing the letter officially withdrawing Alabama from the ERIC system, a database run by a private, out of state group which collects and stores the private information of Alabama citizens. He and his team at the Secretary of State’s Office began working immediately to develop and implement an Alabama-based solution to ERIC – the Alabama Voter Integrity Database, better known as AVID.
In March of 2024, Wes testified before the United States Senate on several issues including the importance of state sovereignty in election administration, reforming the National Voter Registration Act, and the lack of resources provided to state election officials to verify the citizenship of voters.
Since taking Office, he has championed legislative action that both strengthened the security of Alabama elections and reduced government red tape for business owners and candidates alike. Major wins of his legislative agendas include banning internet connectivity for election tabulators, requiring the use of paper ballots in all Alabama elections, outlawing absentee ballot harvesting and ranked choice voting, and expanding the Alabama crimes of moral turpitude law. Wes also supported legislation that removed burdensome fees for Alabama business owners and unnecessary reporting requirements for municipal candidates.
He has also provided local election officials with tools to recruit qualified poll workers with his Lawyers for Liberty and Heroes at the Polls initiatives.
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Wes secured the Republican nomination for the Office of Alabama’s Secretary of State in June, 2022. He was elected on November 8, 2022.
He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Alabama where he played football for the Crimson Tide. He received his Master’s degree from Troy University. He and his wife, Cae, have two children. Davis is a student at Troy University. Dee is a student at the University of Alabama. They attend First Baptist Church of Troy, where Wes is an ordained Deacon and Sunday School leader.