RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) — The State of North Carolina and its State Board of Elections are on the receiving end of a lawsuit claiming the state has failed to "maintain an accurate voter list" in accordance with federal law.

On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced it had filed the lawsuit, which claims the state has directly violated the mandate laid out in the Help America Vote Act of 2002.

The violation points to a registration form that the DOJ claims "did not require a voter to provide identifying information such as a driver’s license or last four digits of a social security number." Once the forms were completed, voters were added to the state voter registration roll and some remain on it without the required information, the federal agency said.

"Accurate voter registrat

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