Judge rules against GOP effort to purge 225,000 from voter rolls

Good morning and welcome to your Under the Dome newsletter. I’m Caitlyn Yaede. We start today with reporter Kyle Ingram’s dispatch from a Wilmington courthouse.

A federal judge partially dismissed a controversial Republican lawsuit seeking to purge 225,000 North Carolina voters from the rolls on Thursday.

The lawsuit alleges that the State Board of Elections improperly allowed these voters to register without providing certain identification information.

Chief U.S. District Judge Richard E. Myers II, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, ruled that the NC GOP and Republican National Committee did not have the right to sue over the federal voter registration law in question.

However, Myers agreed to send a separate portion of the GOP’s lawsuit, which made arguments based on the North Carolina Constitution, back to a state court for consideration.


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