Democrats argue that 73,000 North Carolina voters remain on the rolls without proper ID

North Carolina’s Board of Elections reached an agreement Monday with the Republican and Democratic parties to give 73,000 voters more time to update their voter registrations before removing them from the voter rolls.

The deal concludes a protracted legal battle after the Republican National Committee and the North Carolina GOP sued state election officials in 2024, claiming nearly 250,000 voters were improperly registered. The voters in question did not provide the last four digits of their Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers or verification that they were not registered.

Republicans requested that voters be removed from the rolls and cast their votes in the 2024 election. The Democratic National Committee hailed Monday’s consensus as a victory, accusing the GOP of voter suppression.

“This latest victory is a victory for Americans and another blow to Republican plans to disenfranchise voters ahead of the midterm elections,” DNC Chairman Ken Martin said in a statement after the deal.

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The North Carolina State Board of Elections acknowledged that nearly 100,000 voters lacked proper identification last summer. By December, that number had shrunk to about 73,000.

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Monday’s agreement allows those voters to remain on the voter rolls, updating their information when they vote. North Carolina law requires voters to show identification when voting.

The settlement comes amid a federal battle over voter ID requirements, with the GOP pushing back Protecting American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America The legislation, which passed the House last week and is expected to face a vote in the Senate. The bill requires voters to provide proof of citizenship before voting.

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., vowed Sunday that Senate Democrats would block the effort.

“We’re not going to let it pass the Senate,” Schumer told CNN’s Jake Tapper. “We’re fighting tooth and nail for this. It’s an outrageous proposal, you know, it shows the political bias of the MAGA right. They don’t want to vote for poor people. They don’t want to vote for people of color because they don’t often vote for them.”

Schumer’s comments came after Tapper pressed him on his opposition, with polls showing that about 83% of Americans support some form of voter ID. That figure comes from A Pew Research Survey A poll published last year found that 71% of Democratic voters supported presenting ID to vote.

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In addition to ID requirements, the GOP-backed bill would establish a system for state election officials to share information with federal officials to verify voter rolls. It would allow the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to pursue immigration cases if non-citizens are listed as eligible voters.

Democrats have tried to paint the bill as racist.

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“What they’re proposing in this so-called savings act is like Jim Crow 2.0,” Schumer said. “They make it very difficult to get any kind of Voter ID card That more than 20 million eligible people, especially poor people and people of color, would not be able to vote under this law.”

Fox News’ Alex Miller contributed to this report.

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