Why is ICE demanding 18yrs of voting records from North Carolina?

Immigration authorities want North Carolina elections officials to turn over nearly a decade’s worth of voting records by the end of the month. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina subpoenaed the state records Friday. The State Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement says subpoenas also went to the 44 counties in the eastern district. A meeting notice from the board says the subpoena came at the request of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Among the state records from Jan. 1, 2010 through Aug. 30, 2018 that were requested: any and all voter registration applications, federal write-in absentee ballots, federal post card applications, early voting application forms, provisional voting forms, absentee ballot request forms, all “admission or denial of non-citizen return forms,” and all voter registration cancellation or revocation forms.

An attorney who represents Democrats in election cases posted on Twitter that at least one subpoena sent to a county seeks records from 2013 to 2018.




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