A federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit alleging Nevada public assistance offices weren't doing enough to help clients register to vote.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Thursday overturned a lower court's decision to dismiss the lawsuit. The case will be reassigned to a new judge.
Three civil rights groups sued state officials in 2012, saying Nevada public assistance offices weren't complying with a state law that aimed at increasing voter registration among the poor. They said food stamp and welfare providers weren't proactively giving clients voter registration forms, and were sometimes out of the forms.
A district judge cited procedural issues in throwing out the case, which was filed by NAACP branches in Reno and Las Vegas and the National Council of La Raza.
