Alabama Officials Sued Over Removal of Former Noncitizens From Voter Rolls

The lawsuit alleges that the policy threatens the voting rights of naturalized citizens who were once issued noncitizen identification numbers by DHS.

Voter enters a polling station at Floyd Middle Magnet School during the Democratic presidential primary in Montgomery, Ala., on March 3, 2020. Joshua Lott/AFP via Getty Images

A number of advocacy groups filed a lawsuit on Sept. 13 against the Alabama secretary of state and attorney general over a recent decision that removed some naturalized citizens who were previously noncitizens from voter rolls.

The groups argued that this meant that these individuals would need to reregister to vote and that this “undermined the fundamental right to vote.”