US judge to NC counties: restore names of voters recently purged from rolls

The News and Observer: A U.S. District Court judge ruled on Friday that three counties must restore names to voter rolls that were part of recent mass purges.

The ruling from U.S. District Judge Loretta Biggs came in response to a lawsuit filed Monday by the state NAACP. In the lawsuit, seeking an emergency halt to voter roll purges in Beaufort, Moore and Cumberland counties, NAACP representatives and several affected voters described the practice as an effort to suppress the African-American vote.

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