Lawsuit Targets AL SoS and AG Over Voter Roll Purge

In August, the Secretary-of-State Removed more than 3,200 People He claimed were “Non-Citizens” from the Voter Rolls. The Lawsuit claims this Violated the National Voting Rights Act (NVRA) and says some Voters on the List are indeed U.S. citizens. A Lawsuit filed by the Campaign Legal Center, Fair Elections Center, and Southern Poverty Law Center, is Challenging this Removal.

“Secretary Allen admitted the virtual certainty that voters on this list, the Purge List, included naturalized citizens,” the Lawsuit claimed. “If they’ve become naturalized since we got that information then we want to know that as well,” Allen said. “It’s clear that information was riddled with errors and that the program is flawed by design,” Kate Huddleston, senior Legal Counsel for the CLC said.

Huddleston claims that because Allen Removed Voters 84 days from the November Primaries, Violates the 90-day Deadline that the NVRA sets. The Suit also Challenges the wayPpeople on the List were found. “Every single naturalized citizen so a person who is a US citizen who is an immigrant and was born outside the United States has previously had a non-citizen identification number,” Huddleston said.

But One of the Plaintiffs is James Stroop. A U.S. Citizen Interviewed last month, after the Discovery He was swept up in this Purge of Voter Rolls. He’s never had a Non-Citizen ID number. Raising Questions on how the Secretary-of-State created the List. “But as you know the purge program and purge list have been kept secret, the criteria for inclusion is secret,” Huddleston said.

“Well, that showed me that it’s a hidden secret that only he and the other secretary of state and perhaps the attorney general knows how he came up with this formula,” Benard Simelton, President of the Alabama Chapter of the NAACP said. The Alabama Chapter of the NAACP is Another Plaintiff in the Suit.

“My initial reaction was Why? two months or so before the election that these names are being removed,” Simelton said. “They go to vote and all of a sudden they find out they can’t vote. That’s voter disenfranchisement at its highest form.”

Huddleston said that the Campaign Legal Center has now Filed an Emergency Motion for Expedited Discovery, to try to find out how the Secretary-of-State’s Office Identified this List of People.










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