A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen to pause his purge of thousands of naturalized citizens from the state's active voter rolls.
The judge wrote that Allen’s office “blew the deadline when he announced a purge program” just 84 days before the 2024 presidential election.
A federal judge blocked Alabama election officials from carrying out a last-minute purge of names from lists of registered voters, finding the state “blew” a 90-day nationwide deadline to maintain the status quo ahead of the November election.
District Judge Anna Manasco sided with the Justice Department and civil rights groups that said the effort came too close to election day and included eligible voters
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday halted a program that made thousands of legal voters in Alabama inactive, restoring active registration status for both American-born and naturalized citizens ahead of the November elections.
Judge Anna M. Manasco, a Trump appointee, said that Alabama must stop moving voters from active to “inactive” status, as the presidential election is just three weeks away.
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Legal battles over threats to voter eligibility are playing out across the US as Trump baselessly alleges noncitizens are illegally voting
A federal judge is halting an Alabama program that made thousands of legal voters inactive ahead of the November elections
Upon its founding in 1819, Alabama was given three electoral votes, which it gave to President James Monroe, the fifth president of the United States in 1820. The number of votes was increased to five in the general elections of 1824 to 1840, then again in 1844 until 1860, when the state seceded from the Union.
A federal judge Wednesday blocked the state of Alabama from conducting a voter removal program that state officials claimed was targeted at noncitizens on voter rolls. In a five-page order, U.S. District Judge Anna Manasco stopped Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen from “inactivating” people who had noncitizen identification numbers,