Election officials in North Carolina have reached a consent decree with the federal Justice Department committing the state to clean up its voter rolls by requiring everyone on the list to provide a driver’s license or Social Security number.

More than 100,000 people were allowed to register without providing that information.

Now the state is going back to ask them to submit their numbers, and it has agreed to make sure registrants provide the information going forward. Those who don’t correct their records will have to cast provisional ballots in future elections.

U.S. District Judge Richard Myers II signed off on the agreement Monday. He will retain jurisdiction over the case for at least two years as the state moves to comply.

North Carolina said it has already mailed many of the voters with incomplete records to get the updated information. It will file reports with the court in coming months detailing progress.

The State Board of Elections’ public database showed more than 80,000 people still had uncorrected records as of Tuesday.

The state’s old registration form did not explicitly demand either a driver’s license number of the last four digits of a Social Security number to sign up to vote. The numbers are supposed to be used to confirm a voter’s identity.

The Trump Justice Department brought the case in May, saying the state had taken only “limited actions” to fix the situation.

The Democratic National Committee had attempted to intervene in the case, saying it worried that voters would be kicked off the rolls if they didn’t pony up a number.

Judge Myers rebuffed their request to intervene.

The agreement reached this week says that voters won’t be removed from the rolls for lacking a number and casting a provisional ballot.

Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department’s civil rights division, blasted groups’ attempt to intervene in the lawsuit as “alarmist,” and said they showed “hubris” by taking credit for the new settlement.

“Nevertheless, we are pleased with the progress North Carolina has made and will continue to make as it cleans up its registration rolls, as required by federal law,” she said.

Sam Hayes, the Board of Elections’ executive director, said he’d been working to fix the snafu even before the federal lawsuit.

“In less than three months, we have reduced the number of voters on the registration repair list by 22%. Our plan is working, and this number will continue to drop as more voters become aware of this effort and fix their registrations,” he said.

• Stephen Dinan can be reached at sdinan@washingtontimes.com.