Democrats thwart Justice Department lawsuits through negotiations to keep 98,000 North Carolina voters | Trump administration

Democrats Against the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division’s victory, a deal was negotiated to prevent about 98,000 North Carolina voters from being blocked from voting.

Ministry of Justice, the department Donald Trump The North Carolina Election Commission has been sued earlier this year, asking the state to refuse to vote to voters who do not provide driver’s license number or the last four digits of their social security number, as required by the U.S. Help Voting Act.

this North Carolina The appeals court ordered the board to seek information from voters before allowing them to vote in future elections, and the Republican-majority committee would comply with the Democratic National Committee (DNC) (DNC) and the state’s voting rights groups.

The DNC asserted that the action required by the Justice Department violated the National Voter Registration Act and achieved partisan purposes.

Proposed consent orders and agreements between the Department of Justice and the State North Carolina Resolving the Justice Department lawsuit and allowing voters who do not provide information when voting on temporary voting will resolve the issue at the polling station. Patrick Gannon, director of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, said Judge Richard Myers II, still had to approve the agreement.

Historically, the voting rights of the Ministry of Justice’s civil rights department are partly the enforcer of the Voting Rights Act and the principle of greater voting access and universal suffrage. The tradition has stood out under the leadership of Harmeet Dhillon, the department’s Assistant Attorney General. Daliron ditch Shortly after the department was confirmed, the department’s leaders and staff soon after April and refocused the department’s mission on preventing voter fraud and prosecution of non-referendums – both extremely rare.