Republicans Win A Court Approved Deal
North Carolina election officials have agreed to do more to keep noncitizens off the state’s voter rolls, and that is the kind of basic housekeeping voters should have gotten long ago. The Republican National Committee and the North Carolina GOP called the consent judgment a major win after their lawsuit pushed the State Board of Elections to finally obey the law instead of treating the voter file like a junk drawer nobody wants to sort through. Wake County Superior Court Judge Jennifer Bedford approved the deal over objections from Marc Elias’s lawfare machine, which never seems to meet an election reform it likes.
Jury Duty Records Now Matter
The agreement says elections officials must use jury duty records to find and remove people who said they could not serve because they are not U.S. citizens. That matters because if someone tells the court system they are not a citizen, the state should not act surprised later when it finds that same name sitting on the voter rolls. RNC Chairman Joe Gruters said the fix is simple and sensible, and he is right. It is not radical to expect elections officials to check records they already have and keep the rolls limited to legal voters.
Left Wing Groups Tried To Block It
Opponents tried to stop the deal by claiming privacy worries and a so-called chilling effect, which is the modern left’s favorite way to say, “please do not make us follow the law too closely.” Attorneys tied to Elias Law Group represented North Carolina Asians Together and El Pueblo, a liberal turnout group that has even issued non-governmental identification to noncitizens who could not get official ID, according to nonprofit tracking reports. They objected to posting juror disqualification information online, but the larger issue is not whether activists feel comfortable. The larger issue is whether North Carolina keeps its voter rolls clean.
The Pressure Campaign Worked
The case started after the 2023 law was passed and the RNC filed a public records request in 2024 to see whether the State Elections Board was actually complying. When the board did not respond, Republicans sued, and the board then backed down and agreed to use jury information from county clerks to remove noncitizens from North Carolina’s voter rolls. That is a familiar pattern in election integrity fights. Push hard, ask questions, file the lawsuit, and suddenly the people who said nothing could be done discover that, in fact, quite a lot can be done when someone has a spine.
ELECTION INTEGRITY: RNC secures consent judgment forcing North Carolina to purge noncitizens from voter rolls using jury-duty records where people admitted they aren't U.S. citizens.
The state elections board must now review those records, identify ineligible voters, and begin… pic.twitter.com/9OYCSBVOD3
— Fox News Politics (@foxnewspolitics) May 24, 2026
More States And More Pressure Are Coming
According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 17 states already use jury lists for voter roll maintenance. Congress has also seen the stalled ACE Act, which would require federal courts to notify state election officials when noncitizens are excused from jury duty so voter rolls can be updated. Meanwhile, the RNC is launching a multimillion-dollar election integrity campaign ahead of the November midterms, with plans to hire directors in 17 states and recruit poll workers, poll watchers, and election observers. President Trump made the issue clear in 2024, and Republicans say they are not backing off now. Since the feckless Senate apparently cannot pass the SAVE America Act, the job of protecting legal ballots is landing where it often does these days, on activists, lawyers, and voters who are tired of sloppy elections.
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