Upon its founding in 1819, Alabama was given three electoral votes, which it gave to President James Monroe, the fifth president of the United States in 1820. The number of votes was increased to five in the general elections of 1824 to 1840, then again in 1844 until 1860, when the state seceded from the Union.

The judge agreed with the Justice Department's position that more than 3,000 people were removed from the state's voter rolls too close to the election.

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

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

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 ordered Alabama to stop canceling voter registrations, siding with the Department of Justice's claim that the state violated federal law by purging its voter rolls so close to the election.

The Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice is encouraging some voters to check their registration status. The coalition sued Secretary of State Wes Allen after he carried out a program to remove ineligible voters from state voter rolls,

The judge wrote that Allen’s office “blew the deadline when he announced a purge program” just 84 days before the 2024 presidential 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.

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

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.