http://www.wnyc.org/story/justice-department-board-of-elections-violated-viting-rights/ Justice Department Says City Board of Elections Violated Federal Law in Brooklyn Voter Purge The suit challenges the Board’s removal of voters from the registration rolls in violation of the 1993 National Voter Registration Act. The law prohibits removing voters from the rolls unless the person has failed to vote in two successive federal elections and has failed to respond to a notice from the Board indicating that their registration will be cancelled. The government said that some voters had in fact voted in prior elections, and in other cases the notice itself was improperly handled. WNYC reported that the board mysteriously purged 120,000 Brooklyn voters from the rolls prior to the hotly contested primary between Hillary Clinton and challenger Bernie Sanders last April. The board then said it would reinstate those voters in time for last summer's congressional primaries and the fall general election for president. WNYC also reported that the purge disproportionately affected Latino voters in Brooklyn's 7th Congressional district.
