North Carolina’s State Board of Elections has launched a “Registration Repair” plan targeting nearly 200,000 voters with missing identification information.
The action comes after legal challenges, including one from the Justice Department, which claimed such gaps could enable voter fraud. The bipartisan board voted unanimously last week to implement the plan, aiming to comply with the Help America Vote Act.
That federal law requires voters to provide either a driver’s license number or the last four digits of their Social Security number when registering. Officials with the State Board of Elections created an online database for the 103,000 voters still lacking this information.
