The U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday it filed a lawsuit against the State of Alabama and Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen over the secretary’s effort to remove voters from the state’s rolls too close to the Nov.

Federal prosecutors said Alabama’s efforts to strike more than 3,200 people from voting rolls was done too close to November’s election.

The U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit Friday against Alabama and its top election official, accusing the state of illegally purging people from voter rolls too close to the November election. Federal officials said the purge violates the “quiet period provision” of the National Voter Registration Act that prohibits the systemic removal of names from voter rolls 90 days before a federal election.

An Alabama program to systemically remove potentially ineligible voters from its rolls comes too close to the upcoming election, the Justice Department said Friday in a lawsuit. Why it matters: The National Voter Registration Act prevents states from removing voters from the active rolls less than 90 days before an election to prevent last-minute mistakes.

In a new lawsuit, the Justice Department claims Alabama violated federal law by systematically removing voters fewer than 90 days before a federal election.