North Carolina election board flags hundreds of thousands of voters for potential disenfranchisement [View all]
North Carolina’s GOP-controlled election board announced Tuesday it’s sending letters to hundreds of thousands of voters whose registrations were flagged in a database review — a move that puts them at risk of disenfranchisement.
The letters are going to more than 241,000 North Carolina voters whose driver’s license numbers or partial Social Security numbers did not match when checked against government databases, according to the state board.
“This is just another way we are working to have the most accurate voter rolls in North Carolina history,” Sam Hayes, the board’s executive director, said. “This effort does not affect the eligibility of any of these voters to cast ballots in our elections.”
The letters are being sent under a newly GOP-controlled elections board, reshaped by a law stripping appointment power from the Democratic governor and handing it to the Republican state auditor. Hayes, a GOP operative and former top lawyer for the Republican speaker of the state House, was appointed executive director last year after the board removed a longtime nonpartisan administrator.
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