The Republican National Committee has filed a lawsuit against the North Carolina Board of Elections for refusing to purge hundreds of thousands of illegally registered voters from the state’s voter rolls.

The RNC was joined by the North Carolina GOP in saying that the state offices have continued to register voters even when the would-be voters did not provide the proper identification while registering.

The lawsuit claims that up to 225,000 voters — many who are non-citizens — have been registered.

According to Townhall:

According to the lawsuit, the North Carolina State Board of Elections (NCSBE) “is opening the door for non-citizens to vote” by not requiring proof of identity for about 225,000 voters in the form of a driver’s license or the last four digits of a Social Security number, violating the 2002 Help America Vote Act.

“The NCSBE has once again failed in its mandate to keep non-citizens off the voter rolls, fueling distrust and jeopardizing our elections,” RNC Chairman Michael Whatley said in a statement. “We are committed to the basic principle – and commonsense law – that only Americans decide American elections. Deliberately failing to follow the law, right before our country’s most important election, is inexcusable. We will fight every day to ensure that NCSBE follows the law, cleans the voter rolls, and protects the vote for North Carolinians.

Naturally, leftists claim that this is an effort to “disenfranchise 225,000 North Carolinians.”

But non-citizens are not “North Carolinans.”

If they are illegally registered, they should be removed from the voting rolls. I’s just that simple.

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