The has filed a federal lawsuit against Clarke County claiming the county has more voters on its rolls than living citizens of voting age.
The lawsuit was filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Mississippi against the Clarke County Election Commission.
The lawsuit says: “Voter rolls maintained by the Defendant for Clarke County contain more voters registered to vote than citizens eligible to vote. In March 2015… Clarke County, Mississippi had 12,646 registered voters, despite having a voting age population of only 12,549 according to the United States Census. More than 100 percent of living citizens old enough to vote were registered to vote in Clarke County in 2015.”
The lawsuit alleges that the Election Commission has failed to provide required maintenance of the county’s voting rolls.
Clarke County Circuit Clerk Beth Jordan said the county is in the process, along with the Board of Supervisors attorney, of working with the ACRU to address voter rolls problems or concerns.
