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A federal judge is halting an Alabama program that made thousands of legal voters inactive ahead of the November elections. Republican Secretary of State Wes Allen launched the program in August, saying it would begin a process of removing non-citizens from the state's voter rolls.

Voting rights groups have filed a lawsuit against Alabama's secretary of state over a policy they said is illegally targeting naturalized citizens for removal from voting rolls ahead of the November election.

Alabama’ s Secretary of State is calling upon boards of registrars to remove noncitizens from voting rolls. This comes as Wes Allen says he’s identified more than 3,000 registered voters in the state who have been issued non-citizen identification numbers by the federal government.

A state senate committee has approved a bill that would require Alabama high schoolers to pass a basic civics test before graduating.Senator Arthur Orr,…