Voting rights groups, DOJ drop lawsuit against Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen over voter roll purge – WIAT – CBS42.com
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Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen publicly thanked the Trump administration after the U.S. Department of Justice and several voting rights groups decided to drop a lawsuit against him over plans to purge voter rolls leading up to the general election.
On Friday, the DOJ announced that it had filed to dismiss the complaint against Allen, who had sought to remove undocumented people from the voting rolls. The lawsuit was first filed in September and involved the DOJ and the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice, the League of Women Voters of Alabama and the state’s NAACP chapter. This was done after Allen claimed to have found 3,000 registered voters in the state that were not American citizens.
“States are required to maintain accurate voting rolls and remove ineligible voters,” DOJ Civil Rights Division Deputy Assistant Attorney General Mac Warner said in a statement. “This Administration supports the efforts of states like Alabama that engage in voting security measures that ensure only citizens are voting in our elections. We are dismissing this case from the prior Administration to permit Alabama the time and space to develop a legal, efficient, and effective process to remove noncitizens from their voting roll and secure the vote for their citizens in upcoming elections.”
