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🔥Trump administration sues North Carolina over its voter registration records
Trump administration sues North Carolina over its voter registration records
By GARY D. ROBERTSON
Updated 7:20 PM EDT, May 27, 2025
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Trump administration accused North Carolina’s election board on Tuesday of violating federal law by failing to ensure voter registration records of some applicants contained identifying numbers.
The Justice Department sued in federal court also asking a judge to force board officials to create a prompt method to obtain such numbers.
The department alleges that the state and the board aren’t complying with the 2003 Help America Vote Act after board officials provided a statewide voter registration form that didn’t make clear an applicant must provide either a driver’s license number or the last four digits of a Social Security number. If an applicant lacks neither, the state must assign the person another unique number.
A previous edition of the state board, in which Democrats held a majority, acknowledged the problem in late 2023 after some voters complained. The board updated the form but declined to contact people who had registered to vote since 2004 in time for the 2024 elections so they could fill in the missing numbers.
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https://apnews.com/article/north-carolina-voter-records-federal-government-lawsuit-a9c470880fb423412977c59772b40151
By GARY D. ROBERTSON
Updated 7:20 PM EDT, May 27, 2025
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Trump administration accused North Carolina’s election board on Tuesday of violating federal law by failing to ensure voter registration records of some applicants contained identifying numbers.
The Justice Department sued in federal court also asking a judge to force board officials to create a prompt method to obtain such numbers.
The department alleges that the state and the board aren’t complying with the 2003 Help America Vote Act after board officials provided a statewide voter registration form that didn’t make clear an applicant must provide either a driver’s license number or the last four digits of a Social Security number. If an applicant lacks neither, the state must assign the person another unique number.
A previous edition of the state board, in which Democrats held a majority, acknowledged the problem in late 2023 after some voters complained. The board updated the form but declined to contact people who had registered to vote since 2004 in time for the 2024 elections so they could fill in the missing numbers.
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https://apnews.com/article/north-carolina-voter-records-federal-government-lawsuit-a9c470880fb423412977c59772b40151