North Carolina starts ID checks for 100,000 voters

Source: Courthouse News Service

July 17, 2025


RALEIGH, N.C. (CN) — North Carolina has launched a plan to collect identification information from over 100,000 voters in the state’s voter rolls. The plan follows a lawsuit from the Trump administration, which pushed for the state to correct its voting roll discrepancies and turn over a copy of all corrected voting roll records to the Department of Justice.

The measure aims to ensure the state’s voter rolls are complete, directing the state’s 100 county boards of elections to begin searching election records to attempt to locate identification information that may not have been properly entered into the state’s system. In August, the state board will begin mailing letters to affected voters with return envelopes and directions to update their information online.

The state is first attempting to collect missing information from 103,270 voters, state election officials said Thursday. The state has no record of these voters ever providing their driver’s license number or the last four digits of their Social Security numbers, which is required to confirm citizenship before a voter is included on the state’s voting roll. These voters will still be able to vote in upcoming municipal elections but will be required to vote using provisional ballots, as the state has to validate their identification information to be compliant with federal law.

The error stemmed from a voter registration form that had unclear instructions, which was used for almost a decade before being corrected in January 2024.

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