A lawsuit brought forward by several advocacy groups alleges that four individuals in Alabama have been unfairly targeted by the state’s voter roll purge ahead of the presidential election in November.
The lawsuit claims that State Secretary Wes Allen’s purge program, a plan seeking to purge more than 3,000 voters in the state who had previously been issued noncitizen identification numbers by the Department of Homeland Security, violates the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), a law that advances voting rights and makes it easier for voters to register.
“The Purge Program inactivates and constructively removes thousands of Alabamians from the active voter rolls shortly before the November 2024 general election and forces them to needlessly re-register in order to vote and be registered to vote, based solely on Secretary Allen’s belief that they were at one point issued a noncitizen identification number—even if they have since become naturalized citizens and lawfully registered to vote,” the advocacy groups wrote in the lawsuit.