District Judge Anna Manasco sided with the Justice Department and civil rights groups that said the effort came too close to election day and included eligible voters

The ruling came after the Alabama Secretary of State Office announced it identified over 3,000 voters registered under noncitizen IDs in August.

A federal judge blocked Alabama election officials from carrying out a last-minute purge of names from lists of registered voters, finding the state “blew” a 90-day nationwide deadline to maintain the status quo ahead of the November election.

Judge Anna M. Manasco, a Trump appointee, said that Alabama must stop moving voters from active to “inactive” status, as the presidential election is just three weeks away.

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Alabama to temporarily halt its voter removal program, deemed illegal by the Justice Department. Why it matters: Ahead of the presidential election, voter status will be restored to people inactivated who should still be eligible.

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A federal judge issued an injunction ordering Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen to stop a voter purge program until after Election Day.

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A federal judge on Wednesday halted a program that made thousands of legal voters in Alabama inactive, restoring active registration status for both American-born and naturalized citizens ahead of the November elections.

A judge barred the Alabama secretary of state from moving forward with a program designed to clear noncitizens from the state’s voter rolls, saying in an order on Wednesday that the program violated federal law and had a high error rate.

Federal law prohibits changing voter rolls less than 90 days before an election. The judge said Alabama’s secretary of state “blew the deadline.”