came under lawsuit for using software to purge voters that was described as "99% inaccurate". 2017: Consent decree expired On January 8, 2018, the US District Court for the District of New Jersey refused to extend the consent decree beyond its previous December 1, 2017, expiration date, because, “the DNC did not prove, by a preponderance of the evidence, a violation of the [1982] Consent Decree before December 1, 2017”. Harvard Law Professor Nicholas Stephanopoulos suggested this decision was at least partially influenced by a general decline in the willingness of courts to intervene in election law issues, as witnessed by several moderately recent decisions by the Supreme Court of the United States, especially in Shelby County v. Holder. He wrote, “the half-century in which federal courts have decided redistricting cases can be divided into two periods: one lasting from the 1960s to the 1980s, in which voters and politicians were both comparatively nonpartisan; and another reaching from the 1990s to the present day, which amounts to perhaps the most hyperpartisan era in our country’s history.” See also Voter suppression in the United States References Further reading External links NOW on PBS video report on Voter Caging, featuring an interview with Greg Palast BBC Newsnight report: New Florida vote scandal feared Republican response to Florida vote story Newsnight response to Republican complaint African-American Soldiers Scrubbed by Secret GOP Hit List GOP Challenging Voter Registrations BBC Newsnight Report Oct 2004, The Florida caging list scam Greg Palast discusses his 500 "lost" Rove emails proving illegal caging by Republicans . (includes info on voter suppression in the US state of Georgia) Political terminology Elections Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy Voter suppression Electoral fraud