The Democratic National Committee is threatening to sue the North Carolina board of elections if they go forward with plans to purge almost 100,000 voters from the rolls. The North Carolina court of appeals ordered the board to seek the information from voters before allowing them to vote in future elections. Sam Hayes, executive director of the state board of elections, said in a statement accompanying the vote that the goal is to bring North Carolina “into compliance with the law”. North Carolina is a perennial battleground state with close contests both in presidential races and state races. Earlier rulings narrowed the scope of the state district dispute to a handful of state senate districts.