We’re not living in a democracy if legal votes can be eliminated. Just ahead of the November elections, U.S. District Judge Anna Manasco ruled in favor of the Department of Justice and civil rights groups, ending a program that made thousands of legal voters in Alabama inactive and restoring active registration status for American-born and naturalized citizens.
Of course, the voter purging program was launched by the Republican Secretary of State Wes Allen. Republicans do not want people to vote. They’re not efficient at garnering the popular vote.
WSFA reports:
The Department of Justice and a coalition of immigration and voting rights groups sued Allen, arguing in court that the program violated a federal law barring the systemic removal of names from voter rolls 90 days before a federal election.
Affirming that argument, Manasco said Secretary of State Allen’s office “blew the deadline for the 2024 general election, with real consequences for thousands of Alabamians who the secretary now acknowledges are in fact legally entitled to vote.”
The decision comes less than a week after the Department of Justice filed a similar suit in Virginia.
