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Voter-Registration Purges in North Carolina

Robert Timothy Reagan
May 22, 2023

North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP v. North Carolina State Board of Elections (Loretta C. Biggs, M.D.N.C. 1:16-cv-1274)
Eight days before a presidential election, a federal complaint challenged widespread cancelation of voter registrations based on single instances of undeliverable mail. Finding that the National Voter Registration Act proscribed systematic voter-registration cancelations less than 90 days before a federal election and proscribed cancelations based on evidence of residence changes before two federal elections had occurred, a district judge enjoined the voter-registration cancelation program at issue in an opinion issued four days before the election. The judge issued a permanent injunction about two years later.
Subject: Nullifying registrations. Topics: Registration challenges; National Voter Registration Act.

One of many Case Studies in Emergency Election Litigation.