The U.S. Department of Justice sued the State of North Carolina and the North Carolina Board of Elections for allegedly failing to comply with federal laws requiring accurate voter lists. “The lawsuit alleges that the State of North Carolina, in violation of HAVA’s mandate and clear Congressional intent, used a State voter registration form that did not require a voter to provide identifying information such as a driver’s license or last four digits of a social security number,” the Justice Department stated in a press release. “Voters were then added to the State’s voter registration roll without the required information, and many of these voters remain on the registration rolls without it,” it continued. DOJ sues North Carolina elections board over the need for accurate voter rolls https://t.co/8RUJfpXNYv — John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) May 28, 2025 WRAL reports: Many of the DOJ’s demands are already underway, due to previous lawsuits over those voters with missing information, but the lawsuit says the state’s efforts to fix the problems haven’t been robust enough. It seeks to enforce a 30-day deadline for the state to contact all the voters in question and either get their information or remove them from the list of registered voters. Trump’s lawsuit echoes many of the same claims that fellow Republican Jefferson Griffin made in his unsuccessful attempt to overturn the results of the 2024 election for a seat on the state Supreme Court that was won by incumbent Democratic Justice Allison Riggs. The lawsuit wouldn’t be able to undo Riggs’ election victory, since it has already been formally certified. But it could have ramifications for as many as a quarter of a million North Carolina voters whose eligibility to vote in the future could be called into question. Griffin and Trump have each focused on a state database that’s supposed to contain the driver’s license number or Social Security number of all registered voters, to prove they are who they say they are. Such lists are required by a federal law called the Help America Vote Act, or HAVA, passed in 2002 to modernize voting rules and administration nationwide. Trump DOJ sues NC over election rolls, echoing claims made by Jefferson Griffin #ncpol https://t.co/bdMTxduPHZ — Will Doran (@will_doran) May 27, 2025 Per NC Newsline: The DOJ claims also mirror a state Republican Party and Republican National Committee federal lawsuit contending that people who do not have the government digits connected to their electronic file are not legally registered to vote. It’s unclear how many registrations don’t have the numbers, but the GOP sought to purge about 225,000 voters over the issue. The elections board did not do enough to remedy the problem of missing identification numbers when conservative activist Carol Snow raised it in a complaint in 2023, the DOJ lawsuit says. The state was using voter registration forms that made it look like providing a driver’s license number or partial Social Security number was optional. In some cases, the information was not typed into the database even when voters did supply it. The board, then controlled by Democrats, voted unanimously to make the recommended changes to the voter registration form, but “declined to take sufficient steps to cure their continuing violations” by contacting voters, the lawsuit says. Republicans took control of the elections board this month and appointed a Republican executive director.