Biden-Harris Justice Department sues Alabama over attempts to remove non-US citizens from voter rolls

The Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Alabama on Friday over its attempts to remove noncitizens from the state’s voter rolls.

Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen launched an effort in August to remove non-citizens from voter rolls after identifying 3,251 registered voters who were issued non-citizen identification numbers by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The lawsuit alleges that Alabama’s removal of voters from the state’s voter registration rolls within 90 days of the election violates federal law, according to a Justice Department press release.

“The right to vote is one of the most sacred rights in our democracy,” Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said in a statement Friday. “As Election Day approaches, it is critical that Alabama addresses voter confusion resulting from mailings regarding list updates sent in violation of federal law.”

Clarke said officials across the country should “note the clear and unambiguous restrictions in the National Voter Registration Act on the systematic maintenance of voter rolls due within 90 days of an election.”

“I was elected Secretary of State by the people of Alabama, and it is my constitutional responsibility to ensure that only American citizens vote in our elections,” Allen said in a statement to the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Allen said his office “does not comment on pending litigation in which the Secretary of State is a named defendant.”

According to Allen’s August announcement, the federal government has repeatedly denied the state’s requests for a list of noncitizens in Alabama.

“I have made it clear that I will not tolerate foreign participation in our elections,” Allen said in August. “I even went so far as to testify before the United States Senate Committee on the importance of this issue.”

BREAKING – BIDEN-HARRIS DOJ LAWSUIT TO RETAIN ILLEGALS ON THE VOTING LISTS

Yesterday, the Biden-Harris Justice Department sued the state of Alabama over its fight to remove prospective aliens and illegal aliens from voter rolls ahead of the 2024 election. pic.twitter.com/i2XE9i5sGv

— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) September 28, 2024

While Allen noted that some people may have become eligible to vote since receiving non-citizen identification numbers, he said the state’s efforts allowed them to update their information and vote once it was verified.

The Department of Justice review “found that both natural-born and naturalized U.S. citizens received letters stating that their voter registration had become inactive and that they were placed on a path to removal from Alabama’s statewide voter registration list,” the news release said. . Citizens who received the letters were instructed to submit the attached voter registration form.

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