Roleigh, NC (AP) – Trump’s administration on Tuesday accused the North Carolina Electoral Board of a violation of the federal law, not convinced that some applicants’ registration records were established.
The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit in the Federal Court, also asked the judge to force the board officers to develop a quick method to obtain such numbers.
The department claims that the State and the Board do not comply with the 2002 Aid ASSent America Voting Act after the Board officials submitted a state voter registration form, which did not explain that the applicant must submit a driver’s license number or the last four digits of the social security number. If there is no one to the applicant, the State must assign another unique number to the person.
The previous edition of the State Board, where the Democrats considered the majority, acknowledged the problem in 2023. At the end of the end of the voter complained. The Board has updated its form, but refused to contact people who have registered to vote since 2004. In time of 2024. For the election so that they can fill in the missing numbers.
According to the trial, the Board stated that such information would be accumulated on the basis of ad hoc, as voters appeared at election sites. It is unclear how many voter records are still lacking in identifying numbers.
The lawyers of the Civil Rights Division of the Department claim that the Board must operate more aggressively. They want the judge to give the state for 30 days to prepare a plan to contact voters with records that do not comply with the federal law, get the number of each identification and add it to the electronic list.
The litigation occurs after the similar efforts of the Republican Party and the state GOP candidate for 2024. Electoral registration records.
The court’s lawsuit also stated the extensive executive order of President Donald Trump in March to “protect against illegal voting, illegal discrimination and other forms of fraud, mistakes or suspicion.”
“Accurate voter registration lists are very important in order to ensure that the elections in North Carolina are carried out correctly, accurately and without fraud,” Harmet Harmet, Assistant Prosecutor General, said in a press release. “The Department of Justice will not hesitate to bring an action for jurisdictions that support inaccurate voter registration in violation of federal voting laws.”
This month the composition of the Board changed to reflect the 2024. A law approved by the GOP dominant General Assembly, which changed the power of the board from the now democratic governor to the Republican auditor Dave Bolek. The previous 3-2 democratic majority is now 3-2 Republican majority.
The new iteration of the Board seems open to accept the wishes of the Department of Justice.
Executive Director Sam Hayes said a lawsuit was reviewed in the late Tuesday: “But the inability to collect the information required by Hawling was well documented. Be sure that I am committed to forcing North Carolina to comply with federal laws.”
Local elections begin in September.
Last year, the state and the National GS applied to the court for lack of identification numbers, which they believe could have affected 225,000 registrators. However, the federal judges refused to change so close to the general election.
The issue was also litigating after the election day, when the Republican candidate submitted official protests at the State Supreme Court, which challenged about 60,000 ballot papers, which he said was raised by registrators whose records did not contain one of the two identification numbers.
The Electoral Board said at least half of those voters actually provided an identification number early this year.
The state appellate courts criticized the board of the Board for registration records, but eventually ruled that the disputed ballot papers had to remain in the final election. Democratic associated Judge Allison Riggs defeated the Republican rival Jefferson Griffin by 734 voting out of more than 5.5 million votes.
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The story was updated before the amended that the Help America theft Act was passed in 2002, not in 2003.