Republicans accuse DOJ of trying to keep noncitizens on voter rolls

Republicans and right-leaning groups are accusing the Biden Justice Department of trying to keep noncitizens on the voter rolls in Alabama after the DOJ sued Alabama's secretary of state over plans to purge voter rolls.

The suit against Wes Allen was filed on Friday after he allegedly attempted to remove 3,251 people from the state's registered voter rolls.

Allen said Monday that it was his “constitutional duty to ensure that only American citizens vote in our elections."

The DOJ said that in Allen's push to remove voters who were issued noncitizen identification numbers by the Department of Homeland Security, he also removed some native and natural-born citizens.

“The Justice Department’s review found that both native-born and naturalized U.S. citizens have received letters stating that their voter record has been made inactive and that they have been placed on a path for removal from Alabama’s statewide voter registration list,” a DOJ press conference on Friday said.

The DOJ also said Allen's timing -- less than 90 days before the election -- the “Quiet Period Provision” of the National Voter Registration Act.