ALABAMA (WHNT) — The Department of Justice has announced it is suing the State of Alabama and Secretary of State Wes Allen over a program to remove some voters from voter rolls.
Allen announced in August that he had instructed county boards of registrars across the state to remove 3,251 registered voters from the state’s voter rolls. The secretary said this move only affects residents who had been issued a non-citizen identification number.
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The DOJ now says that the order violates the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA) because it comes too close to the Nov. 5 election.
The department said the order violates a section of the NVRA called the ‘Quiet Period Provision,’ which requires states to complete programs aimed at removing names of ineligible voters no later than 90 days before a federal election. The DOJ said Allen’s order came 84 days before the Nov. 5 General Election…