RALEIGH — U.S. Chief District Judge Richard Myers has dismissed part of a lawsuit brought by the Republican National Committee and North Carolina Republican Party that challenged 225,000 voter registrations in North Carolina.
Meyers, a Trump appointee, remanded part of the case related to the North Carolina Constitution back to state court but ruled that the Republican groups had no standing to bring a claim under state law alleging the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) failed to comply with the federal Help America Vote Act (HAVA).
The portion remanded back to state court involves a challenge to overseas voting under the federal Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA).
The Republican groups say that the state constitution prohibits anyone from voting in the state if they have never lived there and that UOCAVA has been used by the NCSBE to permit anyone to register to vote online without providing the required and valid identification information.
The original lawsuit, filed in August, argued that the NCSBE used a voter registration form before December 2023 that didn’t require HAVA-mandated identification information. The lawsuit requested the 225,000 affected voters be removed from voting rolls or be forced to cast provisional ballots in the upcoming election.
