The Trump administration has accused North Carolina’s election board of violating federal law by failing to ensure that registration records of some applicants contained identifying numbers.

The Justice Department filed a lawsuit Tuesday against North Carolina election officials targeting the registration records of potentially hundreds of thousands of registered voters in the state.

The Trump administration is suing the state Board of Elections over what it says are violations of federal law for failing to maintain an accurate voter registration file. In a lawsuit filed in federal court Tuesday,