The DOJ is working to suppress your vote""starting in North Carolina

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Attorney General Pam Bondi's Department of Justice just filed its first lawsuit under the Help America Vote Act, which was passed in Congress in 2002 to make reforms to the voting process. Given the GOP's enthusiasm for voter suppression, does it even need to be said that there is no way said lawsuit would help anyone vote? The DOJ's inaugural voting rights lawsuit is against North Carolina, and it makes clear what sorts of things the Voting Rights Section is going to prioritize: increasing voter suppression and indulging Republican conspiracy theories about voting. The lawsuit alleges that North Carolina violated HAVA by having a voter registration form that, while it asked for a driver's license number or the last four digits of a Social Security number, those fields appeared optional, but that information is required by federal law.

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