evidence: Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen announced a purge of 3,251 alleged "noncitizens" from the state’s voter rolls on Aug. 13. The National Voter Registration Act makes it illegal for states to purge voter rolls within 90 days of an election, a period which began on Aug. 7. [...] What these supposed noncitizen voter purges do, however, is kick actual U.S. citizens from the voter rolls. In Alabama, Allen’s purge of supposed noncitizens swept up hundreds, if not thousands, of actual U.S. citizens. Over 700 Alabamans who were removed have already re-registered to vote, according to the DOJ lawsuit, showing that these purged voters were citizens all along. Many of the other purged voters could also be citizens who either did not receive letters warning them of the suspension of their registration, or who have not been able to re-register yet. [...] U.S.-born and naturalized citizens have similarly been swept up in highly publicized purges of "noncitizen" voters in Ohio and Texas, in recent years. Similarly, Virginia officials were rebuked in 2023 after erroneously removing more than 3,000 voters they incorrectly claimed were illegally registered felons.