A federal judge on Oct. 16 ordered Alabama’s secretary of state to halt its effort to inactivate and move toward removing noncitizens from its voter rolls because doing so violated a federal prohibition on systematic changes 90 days prior to an election.
“For decades, federal law has given states a hard deadline to complete systematic purges of ineligible persons from voter rolls: no later than ninety days before a federal election,” Judge Anna Manasco of the Northern District of Alabama wrote in her preliminary injunction.
“This year, Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen … blew the deadline when he announced a purge program to begin eighty-four days before the 2024 general election.”…