NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. government on Thursday asked a federal judge in Brooklyn, New York to let it join a private lawsuit seeking to stop New York City's Board of Elections from improperly purging voters from the city's registration rolls.
Common Cause New York, a nonprofit that seeks government accountability, had sued the Board of Elections on Nov. 3, seeking to restore voting rights to thousands of Democratic voters in Brooklyn who had been mysteriously dropped from the rolls between November 2015 and the April 2016 primary election.
In a Thursday court filing, the U.S. Department of Justice said the Board of Elections stripped roughly 117,000 people of their voting rights solely because they had not voted since 2008, and not responded to letters from the city to confirm their eligibility.
The department said this effort to "clean up" Brooklyn's voter rolls,
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