NC NEWSLINE – The Republican National Committee has settled a federal lawsuit with the state Board of Elections over missing information on voter registration forms.
Under the settlement filed Monday, the state agreed to continue its Registration Repair project seeking to collect the missing information and to reject registration applications where voters don’t supply government ID numbers or check a box indicating they don’t have one.
Federal Judge Richard Myers must sign off on the settlement.
In 2024, state and national Republicans sought a court-ordered purge of 225,000 registered voters, claiming their voter registration records did not include either a driver’s license number or partial Social Security number. The Democratic National Committee joined the lawsuit on the side of the state board, which then had a Democratic majority.
The lawsuit foreshadowed an effort by Republican Appeals Court Judge Jefferson Griffin to reverse his narrow 2024 loss to Justice Allison Riggs, the Democratic incumbent, in the race for a state Supreme Court seat, in part by throwing out thousands of votes of registrants whose information he claimed was missing.
Myers ended Griffin’s six-month attempt to overturn Riggs’ victory in May 2025, but the RNC and NCGOP’s lawsuit remained unresolved.
In the meantime, the U.S. Justice Department also sued the state board over the same issue of incomplete registrations. Last June, the state board launched the Registration Repair project as a way to settle the DOJ lawsuit. The state settled the Justice Department lawsuit last year. .
When the effort to collect information began last summer, about 103,000 people were on the list of voters with missing information. About 70,000 people remain on the list.
The DNC issued a statement celebrating Monday’s settlement as a victory for North Carolina voters.
