A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled against a Republican-led attempt to remove more than 225,000 voter registrations in North Carolina, keeping the case in federal court after a district judge attempted to send the case back to state court.

The Republican National Committee and the North Carolina Republican Party have requested the courts order the state’s elections board to remove 225,000 voters from the state registration rolls, claiming those voters are “ineligible” to vote in the state.

Republicans claim the North Carolina State Board of Elections failed to properly register these voters by using a form that did not require a driver’s license number or the last four digits of a Social Security number.

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