Republicans in Congress eye more power for states to remove voters

By: Jonathan Shorman

Outlets: Stateline

Published: December 10, 2025

Words: 1,125

Last Updated: 2 weeks, 1 day ago

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Republicans in Congress want to give states more authority to remove ineligible voters — including noncitizens and people who have moved or died — from voter rolls, seeking to reinforce the Trump administration’s own push to scrub the lists.

At a U.S. House hearing on Wednesday, lawmakers weighed changing a landmark federal voter registration law, the 1993 National Voter Registration Act, or NVRA, which requires state motor vehicle agencies to offer residents the opportunity …

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