Advocacy groups sue Alabama over voter roll purge

A lawsuit brought forward by several advocacy groups alleges that four individuals in Alabama have been unfairly targeted by the state's voter roll purge ahead of the presidential election in November.

The lawsuit claims that State Secretary Wes Allen's purge program, a plan seeking to purge more than 3,000 voters in the state who had previously been issued noncitizen identification numbers by the Department of Homeland Security, violates the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), a...