North Carolina officials will seek to collect information required under federal law from registered voters under a settlement approved by a federal judge on Sept. 8.
State officials acknowledged in the settlement that they were using a voter registration list “that includes records that do not comply with the requirements for federal elections.”
Specifically, they had not collected from some voters a driver’s license number or another identifying number, as required by the Help America Vote Act of 2002.
The settlement states that the North Carolina State Board of Elections cannot accept or process any voter registration applications “unless it includes a driver’s license number, for persons who have [a] current and valid driver’s license number; or the last four digits of the Social Security number, for persons who do not have a driver’s license number and have a Social Security number.”…