>“As part of this program, they were all reported to Alabama’s chief law enforcement authority for criminal investigation,” 

>Allen’s office sent notices to 3,251 people, questioning their right to vote and notifying them that their registration status had been changed to inactive. Of those, more than 2,074 people have since been deemed eligible to vote, both sides agreed during court.

The Secretary of State had the police investigate a group of people, of which at least two-thirds - *so far* - have found to have not done anything wrong.

That seems to literally not constitute probable cause for the cops to investigate someone.