By rssfeeds-admin On Friday, the DOJ announced that it had filed to dismiss the complaint against Allen, who had sought to remove undocumented people from the voting rolls. The lawsuit was first filed in September and involved the DOJ and the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice, the League of Women Voters of Alabama and the state’s NAACP chapter. This was done after Allen claimed to have found 3,000 registered voters in the state that were not American citizens.
“States are required to maintain accurate voting rolls and remove ineligible voters,” DOJ Civil Rights Division Deputy Assistant Attorney General Mac Warner said in a statement. “This Administration supports the efforts of states like Alabama that engage in voting security measures that ensure only citizens are voting in our elections. We are dismissing this case from the prior Administration to permit Alabama the time and space to develop a legal, efficient, and effective process to remove noncitizens from their voting roll and secure the vote for their citizens in upcoming elections.”
In his statement, Allen referred to the lawsuit as a “Biden-Harris administration lawsuit” and thanked “President Trump’s USDOJ” for the action.
“President Trump and I hold the same zero-tolerance position on noncitizen voting. We are truly blessed to have leadership restored in the Whitehouse and at the federal level that will respect, uphold, and defend our country against the liberal ideologies that have plagued America for far too long,” Allen wrote in his statement.
Citing their reason for dropping the lawsuit, a representative from Campaign Legal Center said in a recent interview that their “understanding is that Secretary Allen has no plans to reimplement the process that we sued over.”
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