Trump administration complains North Carolina for its registration records

Raleigh, NC – The Trump administration accused the North Carolina election council on Tuesday of violating the federal law by not guaranteeing the registration data of the voters of some applicants containing figures.

The Ministry of Justice has sued the Federal Court to also ask a judge to force administrative officials to create a rapid method to obtain such figures.

The Department claims that the State and the Board do not comply with the 2002 Help -Alpy voice Act after administrative officials have provided a registration form for the entire state that made no applicant clear have to provide Either a driving number or the last four digits of a social security number. If an applicant does not fog, the State must assign the person a different unique number.

An earlier edition of the State Board, in which Democrats had a majority, acknowledged the problem at the end of 2023 after a voter had complained. The board updated the form, but refused to contact people who had registered since 2004 to vote on time for the 2024 elections so that they could fill in the missing numbers.

According to the court case, the board indicated that such information would be collected ad hoc if voters appeared at polling stations. It is unclear exactly how much the archives of the voters are still lacking in identifying figures.

Lawyers of the Civil Rights division of the department claim that the board should act more aggressively. They want a judge to give the state for 30 days to develop a plan to contact voters with data that do not meet federal legislation, to obtain an identifying number for each and to add it to the electronic list.

The lawsuit follows similar efforts of the Republican Party and a state of Gop -candidate To tackle the registration records for the 2024 elections.

The lawsuit also referred to President Donald Trump broad implementation order on elections in March To “protect against illegal voices, illegal discrimination and other forms of fraud, mistakes or suspicion.”

“Accurate voters registration rolls are crucial to ensure that elections in North Carolina are held honestly, accurately and without fraud,” said assistant -processor -general Harmeet Dhillon in a press release. “The Ministry of Justice will not hesitate to submit lawsuits against legal areas that maintain inaccurate voter registration -Roles in violation of the federal issues.”

This month, the composition of the board changed to reflect a general meeting of the Board by De Gop to reflect a law of 2024 that moved the appointment powers of the Board of Directors from the now Democratic Governor to the Republican state auditor Dave Boliek. An earlier 3-2 democratic majority is now a 3-2 republican majority.

The new iteration of the board sounds open to embrace the wishes of the Ministry of Justice.

Executive director Sam Hayes said at the end of Tuesday that the lawsuit was revised: “But the failure to collect the information required by HAVA is well documented. Be assured that I am dedicated to bring North Carolina into line with federal law.”

Local elections start in September.

The State and the National Gop complained last year about the lack of identifying numbers, which they estimate to have affected 225,000 registrants. But federal judges refused to make changes that are so close to the general elections.

The issue was also appointed after the election day as part of formal protests submitted by the Republican candidate for a seat in the Supreme Court of the State that challenged approximately 60,000 ballot papers that he argued were quoted by registrants whose data contained none of the two identifying numbers.

The election board said that earlier this year at least half of those voters actually provided an identifying song.

State Appeals rights of the court criticized the handling of the registration of the board of directors, but in the end it ruled that the challenged ballot papers should remain in the final election statement. Democratic Associate Justice Allison Riggs defeated the Republican challenger Jefferson Griffin With 734 votes from more than 5.5 million ballot papers.

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This story has been updated to be corrected that the Help America Vote ACT was hired in 2002, not 2003.