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Justice Department sues Alabama over its effort to remove more than 3,000 names from voter rolls too close to election

entremet

entremet

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CNN —
The Justice Department sued Alabama on Friday over the state's recent effort to remove more than 3,000 names from its voter rolls, arguing the move violated federal law prohibiting such action from taking place too close to an election.

Alabama GOP Secretary of State Wes Allen announced on August 13 that he had begun a process of removing 3,251 individuals previously identified as being noncitizens from the state's voter rolls – even as he acknowledged the possibility that some of those people have since become naturalized citizens who are eligible to vote.

But in an 18-page lawsuit filed in federal court in Alabama, the Justice Department argued that the so-called voter roll purge ran afoul of the National Voter Registration Act, which governs how and when most states can execute large-scale changes to their lists of registered voters. The federal law requires states to observe a 90-day quiet period during which officials cannot "systematically remove the names of ineligible voters from the official lists of eligible voters."
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Non-citizens? The Trump influence is strong here. Alabama is deep red, but also due to gerrymandering and intimidation, same with a lot of states in the Deep South. Remember, many of the states have massive Black populations.

 
Omegasquash

Omegasquash

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entremet said:
Yeah, "states rights" and all. And the current Chief Justice spend his whole career before joining the court fighting the VRA.
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Yeah. The Roberts court has actively ripped large holes in it.

And I can only assume that since the announcement about the removal came from the SoS, it must have been from Montgomery. Of all cities.
 
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