By Kat Stafford

(Reuters) -The NAACP has sued Virginia state election officials, accusing them of disenfranchising students by rejecting voter registration forms from students that do not include details like dormitory names, room numbers and campus mailbox information.

The largest U.S. civil rights group’s Virginia State Conference along with the Advancement Project, a nonprofit focused on racial justice issues, said in their complaint filed on Friday that requiring those details placed a “discriminatory, arbitrary and unjustified burden” on students living on campus.

The lawsuit said students at several campuses, including historically Black institutions Norfolk State University, Virginia State University and Hampton University, had been affected by the requirements.

The lawsuit, fil

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