NAACP files a lawsuit in North Carolina over voter registration

Brooke Kavit
Updated

By: Nicholas Cardona/Veuer

The NAACP filed a lawsuit Monday to prevent several North Carolina county boards of election from taking people off their voter rolls.

The lawsuit calls into question boards in Moore and Beaufort counties where thousands of voters' names were challenged by individuals and then removed from the state's voter rolls.

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According to the complaint, nearly 4,500 names have been removed because a mailing sent to the voters' addresses were returned as undeliverable.

The National Voter Registration Act prevents boards of election from removing voter names from the rolls within 90 days of an federal election.

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But state law doesn't say anything about individual challenges.

One of the lawsuits goals is to restore voters' names that have been removed.

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