DeKalb County’s election superintendent has called on the elections board to rescind a recent voter purge, saying she was “alarmed and profoundly displeased” by civil rights lawyers’ claim it was illegal.

In an email obtained by the Daily Report that was sent to election officials and attorneys with the ACLU and the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Thursday, Superintendent Dele Loman Smith recommended that the county law department decide whether the board violated the law when it categorically removed all registered voters listed at a single address in Decatur from the voter rolls.