The judge agreed with the Justice Department's position that the removal of more than 3,000 people from the state's voter rolls took place too close before the election.

A federal judge is halting an Alabama program that made thousands of legal voters inactive ahead of the November elections

Democratic congressional hopeful Shomari Figures outraised Republican Caroleene Dobson by almost doubling her contributions during the third quarter, according to campaign finance reports filed Thursday with the Federal Election Commission.

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.

Alabama is one of the four states in the country that do not offer early voting and require an eligible reason to vote by mail. Russell County Probate Judge Alford Harden says voting this way is beneficial as it “thins out the polls” on election day.

Fairway is based in Wisconsin and operates in Birmingham under the name MortgageBanc. The Justice Department and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau claimed that Fairway discouraged residents of Black neighborhoods from applying for mortgage loans.

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

A judge barred the Alabama secretary of state from moving forward with a program to clear noncitizens from voter rolls, saying it violated federal law.

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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.