Lee said his company will never again get involved in cleansing voting rolls.
He also said many people with voter registration cards had arrived to find that they were not on the voting rolls.
The Senate seems to have no inclination to change the voting rolls from which its members were elected.
This came after a state court ordered that students should be removed from the voting rolls in Arkadelphia.
It appeared that most of those left off the voting rolls, however, were opposition backers.
Democrats viewed the lawsuit as a Republican effort to remove the poor and elderly from the voting rolls.
Even people declining to vote must return the ballot by the election deadline to allow government to maintain the voting rolls for next time.
Under passage of the 14th and 15th Amendments, 700,000 blacks were added to the voting rolls.
That could add millions of new registrants to the voting rolls.
At the time many Republican critics feared that it would lead to more Democrats on the voting rolls.