A federal judge ordered three North Carolina counties to restore thousands of voter registrations canceled too close to Election Day after the NAACP sued over the removals. Early voting ends Saturday in the critical swing state, which the NAACP has previously sued over other voter access issues. Challengers in Moore and Cumberland counties include volunteers with the Voter Integrity Project, a group that says it aims to guard against voter fraud. See Predictions Map →"Voter enfranchisement cannot be sacrificed when citizens through no fault of their own have been removed from the voter rolls," she said. State elections officials said earlier this week that their database shows eight counties removed nearly 6,700 challenged voters statewide in the past two years.

Source: Fox News November 05, 2016 00:22 UTC