Indiana Secretary of State Diego Morales and the directors of the Indiana Election Division are being taken to federal court over two new state laws that impact naturalized citizens who vote.

Both laws, which became effective July 1 of this year, require some form of cross-check between voter information and citizenship status in a manner that some voting rights organizations, in a lawsuit filed Oct. 21 , allege violates both the National Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act by creating unnecessary barriers for a certain class of U.S. citizen.

“Many individuals (we have) assisted to obtain citizenship over the years fled from countries where they never had the chance to participate in a democracy," Cole Varga, CEO of Exodus Refugee Immigration, one of the plaintiffs, wrote in a

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