RNC suing North Carolina State Board of Elections, says it ‘blatantly ignored the law’

RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — Based on claims that it failed to clean up voter rolls, the NC State Board of Elections is facing a lawsuit from the Republican National Committee and the NCGOP.

In a release issued Thursday, the RNC said the NCSBE has “deliberately declined” to enforce a law that requires it to check jury questionnaire responses to identify and remove non-citizens from the voter rolls.

The RNC and NCGOP cited Senate Bill 747, an election integrity law passed in 2023.

“The RNC and NCGOP defended this law in court and now we will make sure the NCSBE follows and enforces these critical safeguards in The Old North State,” RNC Chairman Michael Whatley said in a statement.

“Only Americans should vote in American elections,” he continued in his statement. “If someone claims non-citizenship, they must be taken off the voter rolls. That’s the law. The NCSBE has chosen to blatantly ignore the law, undermine basic election safeguards, and neglect a fundamental principle of our election integrity.

Within the lawsuit filing , the NCGOP and RNC claim that “zero effort” has been made by the Board of Elections to implement the law which went into effect on July 1.

“We have filed this lawsuit to force the NCSBE to immediately clean the voter rolls and prevent non-citizens from voting in November,” the statement from the RNC said.

CBS 17 has reached out to the NCSBE for their response to the filing and is waiting to hear back.

See the full lawsuit below.

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