NC Board of Elections wins appeal to keep Republican voter purge case in federal court

A section of the voter purge case Republicans wanted moved back to North Carolina state courts must remain in federal court, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday.

The decision was a victory for the state Board of Elections, which had appealed a federal judge’s order to send part of the voter purge case back to state court.

The Republican National Committee is seeking a court-ordered purge of 225,000 voters.

When it filed the lawsuit in late August, the RNC asked the court to require the state Board of Elections to come up with a plan to remove those voters from the rolls by Sept. 6, even though federal law prohibits systematic removal of voters within 90 days of an election.




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