The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law filed a lawsuit on February 4, 2019, against the Texas Secretary of State David Whitley and election officials for the creation and rollout of a flawed voter purge list that discriminates against naturalized citizens and for sending out notices threatening to cancel voter registrations based on the list.
We also sent Secretary Whitely a pre-litigation notice letter stating that he has 90 days to halt the purge or face additional legal challenges under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, which permits states only to remove ineligible voters from the list and prohibits discriminatory purges.
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