Trump administration sues North Carolina over its voter registration records
Source: ABC News/AP
May 27, 2025, 7:20 PM
RALEIGH, N.C. -- 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 2002 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 a voter 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. According to the lawsuit, the board indicated that such information would be accumulated on an ad hoc basis as voters appeared at polling places. It's unclear exactly how many voters' records still lack identifying numbers.
Lawyers from the department's Civil Rights Division contend the board must act more aggressively. They want a judge to give the state 30 days to develop a plan to contact voters with records that don't comply with federal law, obtain an identifying number for each and add that to the electronic list. The litigation follows similar efforts by the Republican Party and a state GOP candidate to address the registration records for the 2024 election.
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/trump-administration-sues-north-carolina-voter-registration-records-122250049

Lovie777
(18,701 posts)away the right to vote.
OldBaldy1701E
(7,976 posts)I bet the rethugs in the Assembly are beside themselves wondering why Dear Leader is attacking them.
BumRushDaShow
(153,696 posts)and it seems the GOP there are tacitly going along with that.
OldBaldy1701E
(7,976 posts)Interesting that, even though that orange gibbon has the support of the Assembly as well as the majority of the state, that he would still crap on all of them just to attempt to crap on the Governor.
But, mental ability is not the strong suit of these people, now is it?
(Are they attempting a Pyrrhic victory or something?)
BumRushDaShow
(153,696 posts)despite Turtle and Spawn of Ron Paul. He's also been doing it to AZ (Hobbs) & WI (Evers).
Oddly enough, KS (Kelly) has managed to escape the wrath so far. Maybe Glinda the Good Witch has a bubble around them!
Bayard
(25,331 posts)Will look it up. Thanks!
BumRushDaShow
(153,696 posts)This may be all you get!
Javaman
(63,921 posts)OldBaldy1701E
(7,976 posts)Which is why I don't understand why they are just resigned to take it. Of course, that orange gibbon has many worshippers in the Old North State, so I guess I should not be as surprised. Those people are the definition of 'masochists'.
Javaman
(63,921 posts)C_U_L8R
(47,400 posts)They're like the energizer bunnies of failure. But unfortunately, they're betting they only need to win once.
Bayard
(25,331 posts)Grins
(8,421 posts)Both of them?????
There actually are un-fired lawyers in the Civil Rights Division?