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A new settlement agreement between national Republicans and the North Carolina State Board of Elections is raising concerns among activists, who object to a provision that requires the board to publish the names of some self-identified noncitizens online.<\/p>\n

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Felicia Arriaga, board chair of El Pueblo \u2014 one of the advocacy organizations involved in the lawsuit \u2014 said the settlement puts North Carolina\u2019s Latino community at risk.<\/p>\n

\u201cInstead of making these public records available through legal channels, the board will expose the list of people identified as potential non-citizens to anyone with internet access, without any request, registration, process or legal basis that obliges it to do so, which is dangerous, especially in the current anti-immigrant climate,\u201d Arriaga said.<\/p>\n

The settlement<\/a>, which was approved in Wake County court on Wednesday, requires the State Board of Elections to comply with a 2023 law that sets out a process for finding noncitizens on the voter rolls by using jury questionnaire responses.<\/p>\n

When residents are contacted for jury duty, they can self-identify as noncitizens to show their ineligibility. The law requires courts to share those responses with election officials, who will then check to see if the identified individuals are on the voter rolls.<\/p>\n

The agreement stems from a 2024 lawsuit, in which the Republican National Committee and the NC GOP sued the elections board<\/a>, arguing that it was not acting fast enough to enforce the law and produce records about noncitizens it found on the rolls.<\/p>\n

At the time, the board said the allegations were \u201ccategorically false\u201d and noted that it had already identified nine individuals on the state\u2019s voter rolls who were excused from jury duty for claiming to be noncitizens.<\/p>\n

Wednesday\u2019s settlement largely reinforces the existing law and sets out a schedule for compliance. However, it also includes a new provision that would require the elections board to publish the list of self-identified noncitizens publicly on its website \u201cwith appropriate redactions to comply with state and federal law.\u201d<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the State Board of Elections did not respond to a request for comment about what exact information would be included on its site.<\/p>\n

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The RNC and the elections board reached their agreement last month, but two advocacy groups which had intervened in the case objected to the settlement due to this provision.<\/p>\n

Those groups, North Carolina Asian Americans Together and El Pueblo, argued that the list could \u201cexpose sensitive personal information\u201d and may include individuals who were incorrectly flagged as noncitizens or who have since become eligible voters.<\/p>\n

\u201cIndividuals whose names appear on publicly accessible government list of purported non-citizens may reasonably fear that exercising their right to vote will expose them or their family members to immigration scrutiny, regardless of their own citizenship status,\u201d the groups wrote in a legal brief.<\/p>\n

During Wednesday\u2019s hearing, Narendra Ghosh, a lawyer for the intervenors, also noted that the law itself does not require this publication. He said if an individual wished to find that information, they could file a public records request instead.<\/p>\n

John Branch, a lawyer for the RNC, said the requirement for publication was necessary because the elections board had responded too slowly to his client\u2019s public records requests about the self-identified noncitizens in the past.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom my client\u2019s perspective, it took the lawsuit to get it out in 2024,\u201d he said. \u201cThat provision in the consent judgment is important to us to make sure that that does not happen again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Numerous studies \u2014 both nationally<\/a> and in North Carolina<\/a> \u2014 have found noncitizen voting to be exceedingly rare, even as Republicans make claims of widespread election fraud.<\/p>\n

This story was originally published May 21, 2026 at 2:54 PM<\/span> with the headline “Settlement with RNC requires NC elections board to publish names of noncitizens.” <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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