(The Center Square) – Ending a federal lawsuit has been agreed to in a joint filing by the U.S. Department of Justice and the State Board of Elections in North Carolina.
Judge Richard Myers, chief judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, received the filing on Wednesday. The federal government made its filing in May and agreed with a plan enacted this summer dubbed the Registration Repair Project.
The issues with more than 100,000 registrations are the absence of either a driver’s license number or the last four digits of a Social Security number. State and federal law require one or the other.
The Registration Repair Project has a website allowing voters to check to see if that state has the proper identifying information on them. It also provides three options for how voters can supply the required information.
In future elections, voters who still have not provided the missing information, will have to cast provisional ballots and provide the required identification numbers when they vote, the state said.
The recipients of letters will have options to bring registrations into compliance either in person, by mail or through an online portal.
