Bloomberg Law
Aug. 22, 2019, 9:40 PM UTC

Broward County Voter List Maintenance Sufficient, 11th Cir. Says

Blake Brittain
Blake Brittain
Reporter

Broward County’s efforts to purge ineligible voters from its registration lists were sufficient under federal law, the Eleventh Circuit said Aug. 22.

The National Voter Registration Act only requires a reasonable effort to remove voters based on death or change of address, which the county election supervisor satisfied by searching government records, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit said.

The American Civil Rights Union sued former Broward County, Fla., election supervisor Brenda Snipes under the NVRA and Help America Vote Act for failing to make a reasonable effort to remove ineligible voters from the county’s registration list. ...

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