The North Carolina State Conference of the NAACP, along with an affected voter, is seeking to intervene in a lawsuit aimed at protecting nearly 250,000 voters from what they describe as a baseless effort by the Republican National Committee (RNC) and the North Carolina Republican Party to remove them from the state’s voter rolls just before the 2024 presidential election.
On Wednesday, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ), and Mayer Brown filed a motion to intervene on behalf of individual voter Sailor Jones and the NC NAACP. This action responds to the lawsuit initiated by the North Carolina Republican Party and RNC on August 23 in state court. The lawsuit could threaten eligible voters’ rights to vote based solely on an unreliable and flawed “analysis” targeting their registrations and ballots.
The intervention highlights that the relief sought by the North Carolina Republican Party and RNC is not only unreasonable and likely to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians but is also barred by the National Voter Registration Act. This federal law limits systematic voter registration removals close to elections to protect eligible voters from disenfranchisement.
