With the election only a month away, Democrats are working hard to make sure that noncitizens have a chance to vote. The Biden-Harris administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Friday that it is suing Alabama due to election integrity measures enacted by the state.

Alabama’s Republican Secretary of State, Wes Allen, previously identified 3,251 noncitizens who had registered to vote in the state and ordered the Boards of Registrars to remove the noncitizens from the voter rolls. Allen said at the time, “I have been clear that I will not tolerate the participation of noncitizens in our elections. I have even gone so far as to testify before a United States Senate Committee regarding the importance of this issue.” He added, “We have examined the current voter file in an attempt to identify anyone who appears on that list that has been issued a noncitizen identification number.”

The DOJ filed a lawsuit against Allen and Alabama for “removing voters from its election rolls too close to the Nov. 5 general election…” Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke, of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, said in a press release, “The right to vote is one of the most sacred rights in our democracy.” She noted that the National Voter Registration Act prohibits states from removing ineligible voters from the voter rolls within 90 days of an election. Clarke claimed that this provision “exists to prevent eligible voters from being removed from the rolls as a result of last-minute, error-prone efforts.” She added, “The Justice Department will continue to use all the tools it has available to ensure that the voting rights of every eligible voter are protected.”

According to the DOJ’s press release, the lawsuit “seeks injunctive relief that would restore the ability of impacted eligible voters to vote unimpeded on Election Day and would prohibit future Quiet Period violations.” The DOJ is also pursuing “remedial mailings to educate eligible voters concerning the restoration of their rights and adequate training of local officials and poll workers to address confusion and distrust among eligible voters accused of being noncitizens.”

Alabama is not the only state to clean up its voter rolls ahead of November. North Carolina recently removed nearly 750,000 ineligible voters from its rolls, Oklahoma removed over 450,000, Texas cleared out over a million, and Virginia removed nearly 90,000. Despite the election integrity efforts of such states, experts and surveys anticipate that anywhere from 1.5 to 2.7 million illegal immigrants are likely to vote in November. The Public Interest Legal Foundation currently has 19 lawsuits pending against states that have failed to purge their voter rolls and secure election integrity.

In comments to The Washington Stand, FRC Action Director Matt Carpenter said, “Millions of Americans are rightfully concerned about the presence of ineligible, deceased, and noncitizen voters on their state’s voter file. We should applaud states that have taken action to shore up their voter rolls.” He continued, “When North Carolina, or Virginia, or Ohio, for example, clean their voter file, they eliminate the potential for fraudulently cast ballots and boost confidence in their states that the election results will best reflect the will of the voters.” Carpenter added, “The federal government should be a partner in this effort. Instead, we see them impeding this necessary work to make cheating in elections harder.”

But Democrats aren’t just trying to keep noncitizens on the voter rolls. After Georgia’s State Election Board voted to require counties to hand-count ballots, the Democratic National Committee (DNC), the Democratic Party of Georgia, and Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign sued the Board on Monday. “To protect the sanctity of the state’s laws and to prevent election night chaos, this Court should declare that the Hand Count Rule exceeds SEB’s statutory authority,” the lawsuit reportedly states.

Mike Coan, the State Election Board’s executive director, responded that “the counting of ballots rule simply makes the process uniform across the state and provides a greater confidence to the voters that the numbers are accurate.” He also noted that the Democrats’ lawsuit “illustrates that Lawfare is alive and well in Georgia.”