Federal Judge Blocks Alabama Effort to Remove Noncitizens From Voter Rolls

The Justice Department had sued the state, alleging that it violated a federal law prohibiting systematic changes 90 days before an election.

Voters prepare to cast early ballots in Tempe, Ariz., on Oct. 10, 2024. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

A federal judge on Oct. 16 ordered Alabama’s secretary of state to halt the state’s effort to inactivate and move toward removing noncitizens from its voter rolls because doing so violated a federal prohibition on systematic changes 90 days before 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.