May 28 (UPI) -- The Trump administration is suing North Carolina and the state's Board of Elections on accusations of maintaining voter registration records that include voters who did not provide required identifying information, in violation of federal law.
The Justice Department filed the lawsuit Tuesday, alleging the defendants violated the Help America Vote Act of 2002 by using a state voter registration form that did not "explicitly require" a voter to provide a driver's license number or the last four digits of a Social Security number.
Those who filled out the form, without providing the identifying information, were then added to the voter registration record.
HAVA was sweeping voter reform legislation that included updated voter identification procedures. Under the law, a voter registration application must include either the applicant's driver's license number or the last four digits of their Social Security number.
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