Overview

• The lawsuit alleges the state violated the 2003 Help America Vote Act by using a registration form that did not require applicants’ driver’s license numbers or the last four digits of their Social Security numbers.
• More than 200,000 registered voters in North Carolina lack the identifying information required to verify their eligibility on the official rolls.
• The Justice Department is asking a federal judge to give state officials 30 days to contact those voters and update their records with the missing data.
• North Carolina’s board of elections has updated its registration form but has only collected missing information on an ad hoc basis at polling places.
• Executive Director Sam Hayes has pledged to bring the state into full compliance with federal law following the board’s shift to a Republican majority.