AL State Rep. Debbie Wood Working To Bring Election Audit Bill To Final Vote

Alabama State Representative Debbie Wood (R-Valley) is working hard to have her election audit bill brought to the floor of the Alabama Senate before the regular legislative session ends.

Woods' bill, HB30, is the Alabama Post-Election Audit Act. The bill mandates that each County's Probate Judge conduct a post-election audit following every countywide and statewide general election. This audit would be done to verify the accuracy of election results and enhance public confidence in the electoral process.

HB30 was passed by the Alabama House of Representatives in March 2025, received a favorable report from the Senate Finance and Taxation General Fund Committee and is currently awaiting action by the full Senate.

Wood has been trying to get HB30 added to the Senate calendar, but with only three legislative days left in the session, she admits it’s a difficult battle.

“I think the problem is that most elected officials have never experienced a close race so protecting the votes and the voters is not a priority,” Wood told ALPolitics.com on Monday. “Alabama is the last state to not have some type of post election audit, and we have three days left to get this legislation passed in the Senate.”

Wood was a guest on WVNN’s “The Yaffee Program” last Friday, where she told the host “if we’re going to say that we’re the Golden standard, like we told people all these years…then we need to do what’s right and protect the vote, protect the voters, and this is the way to do it.”

In March, Wood told ALPolitics.com that “Election integrity should be the first thing we fight for when we’re elected, because our constituents go out of their way to vote for us. They take the time because they think their votes count. We told them we were the “gold standard” in the State of Alabama. Right now, we have no way of gauging that, except when people stand in line and their credentials are presented.”

“We are the front line to defend voter integrity in Alabama, and we should be doing it,” Rep. Wood continued. “I was humbled in 2018 when I had a close race, and people told me stories of what they went through to vote for me. People need to know their vote will count because they’re legal, but the ones that aren’t legal, they won’t count.”

Critics of HB30 have said that HB30 is inadequate, statistically invalid and does not improve election security. There are also concerns that the bill does not include provisional and absentee ballots, nor does it include primary elections. With so many of Alabama’s races being decided in the primaries, this is perceived as a significant flaw in the bill.

Rep. Wood has responded to criticisms of HB30 by saying, “I’m absolutely in favor of having every vote hand-counted, but we’re not going to get that this session. I want us to pass this bill, and then work towards something better.”

HB30 has garnered support from State officials, including Secretary of State Wes Allen and State Auditor Andrew Sorrell.

Leadership and members of the Alabama Senate can be contacted through the Senate webpage HERE.