DOJ sues Alabama, state's top election official for allegedly purging noncitizen voters too close to election

The Department of Justice sued the State of Alabama and its apical predetermination official, alleging that they had removed voters who had antecedently been issued noncitizen recognition numbers from its predetermination rolls excessively adjacent to predetermination day.

Noncitizen recognition numbers are a tax-processing fig issued by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to guarantee that people—including undocumented immigrants—pay taxes. Along with paying taxes, noncitizen recognition numbers tin supply ineligible migrants with securing a driver's licence and providing impervious of residency.

After being sworn into bureau successful January, Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen got to enactment to place and region 3,251 individuals who are registered to ballot successful Alabama who person been issued noncitizen recognition numbers by the Department of Homeland Security.

"I person been wide that I volition not tolerate the information of noncitizens successful our elections," Allen antecedently said in a release. "I person adjacent gone truthful acold arsenic to attest earlier a United States Senate Committee regarding the value of this issue. We person examined the existent elector record successful an effort to place anyone who appears connected that database that has been issued a noncitizen recognition number."  

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Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen, attest during a proceeding earlier the Senate Rules and Administration Committee astatine Russell Senate Office Building connected Capitol Hill connected March 12, 2024, successful Washington, DC.  (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Now, the DOJ is pushing backmost and has filed a suit against Alabama and Allen.

The bureau argued that Allen violated the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA), which requires states to complete any changes to the elector registration lists nary aboriginal than 90 days earlier national elections.

Allen implemented the changes 84 days before, the DOJ alleged.

Signs directing voters are seen extracurricular a polling spot connected March 5, 2024, successful Mountain Brook, Alabama. (Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images)

"The close to ballot is 1 of the astir ineffable rights successful our democracy," Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division said successful a statement. "As Election Day approaches, it is captious that Alabama redress elector disorder resulting from its database attraction mailings sent successful usurpation of national law.

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The DOJ besides alleged that Allen's removal of elector registration besides impacted natural-born citizens who were incorrectly identified as imaginable noncitizens.

The Department of Justice seals is seen during a quality league astatine the DOJ bureau successful Washington, May 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

The Justice Department seeks injunctive alleviation that "would reconstruct the quality of impacted eligible voters to ballot unimpeded connected Election Day," the section said successful a statement.

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"The section besides seeks remedial mailings to amended eligible voters concerning the restoration of their rights and capable grooming of section officials and canvass workers to code disorder and distrust among eligible voters accused of being noncitizens," the bureau said.

Fox News Digital has reached retired to Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen for comment.