Voting records recently obtained by APR show that 5th District congressional candidate Candice Duvieilh did not vote in the 2024 election, despite Duvieilh’s claims to the contrary.
Following speculation that the candidate did not vote in Alabama during the 2024 election cycle after moving to the state in 2021, Duvieilh’s campaign issued a press release Wednesday in which Duvieilh claims that both she and her husband cast absentee ballots for Kamala Harris in the 2024 general election.
However, a source at the Alabama Secretary of State’s Office confirmed to APR that there is no record of Duvieilh having voted in Alabama in 2024, absentee or otherwise. In fact, since moving to the state, the candidate only appears to have voted in one municipal election in 2025.
The source confirmed that there is also no record of Duvieilh’s husband voting in 2024 either.
Duvieilh did not immediately respond to APR’s request for additional clarification.
In addition to the claims related to her voting record, the public statement issued by Duvieilh’s campaign also saw the candidate attempt to clarify other aspects of her background.
In the statement, Duvieilh clarified that her previous claims of writing her “first piece of legislation” at just 16 years old were in reference to legislative drafting exercises she participated in while attending the Presidential Classroom program in Washington, D.C. in 2006.
Duvieilh also appeared to retract previous claims of having lived in CD-5 for five years, stating that when her family first moved to Alabama in 2021, they “spent time living in corporate housing and rental properties before purchasing their home in Marshall County in 2022.” Duvieilh said that her family then moved to Triana, in District 5, “after some time passed.”
Additionally, in a separate statement provided to APR, Duvieilh walked back a candidate biography her campaign had previously provided to WHNT in which she was described as “an educator and nonprofit leader with nearly two decades of experience delivering results for communities across Alabama.”
Duvieilh claimed that the bio published by WHNT was incorrect and said her campaign had requested the bio be changed to read: “Dr. Candice Duvieilh, Ed.D., is an educator and nonprofit leader with nearly a decade of experience delivering results for communities across the Southeast.”
Duvieilh has also been the subject of some online controversy in recent days, as members of a Facebook group dedicated to women’s advocacy in Alabama claimed that the group had been co-opted by Duvieilh’s campaign, leading several members who supported other candidates in the CD-5 primary to leave the group and express their frustrations online.
Duvieilh is currently set to face off against Andrew Sneed in the Democratic primary runoff for Alabama’s 5th Congressional District on June 16. Sneed finished first in the May 19 primary with 42 percent of the vote while Duvieilh beat out Jeremy Devito to advance to the runoff with 35.7 percent.
