The Supreme Court reinstated Virginia's decision before the Nov. 5 election to purge from its voter rolls about 1,600 people who state officials concluded were not American citizens, though President Joe Biden's administration and voting rights groups said actual citizens were among those struck.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, on Aug. 7 announced a new policy for culling from Virginia's official voter registration list people "Unable to verify that they are citizens," with daily data sharing among state agencies.
Soon: Invest in Newsmax, Become a Shareholder before Public Offering... See More Here U.S. District Judge Patricia Giles had decided that Virginia's "Systematic program" of voter list maintenance occurred too close to the election in violation of federal law.
With immigration figuring as a key issue in the campaign, court fights over voter list purges in Virginia and Alabama of suspected noncitizens have drawn attention.
At least 18 U.S. citizens were wrongly scrubbed from the voter rolls since the new policy took effect, according to voting rights groups including the League of Women Voters of Virginia that filed a lawsuit on Oct. 7 in federal court challenging the purge.
The challengers argued, among other things, that Virginia's voter roll purge violated a 1993 federal law called the National Voter Registration Act that contains a so-called "Quiet period provision" barring states from the "Systematic" - as opposed to individualized - removal of people on voter lists within 90 days of an election.
Of the roughly 1,600 people removed from Virginia's voter rolls since Aug. 7, about 600 had indicated to the DMV that they were not U.S. citizens, according to Virginia's filing to the Supreme Court.
https://www.newsmax.com/politics/supreme-court-virginia-voter-roll/2024/10/30/id/1185982/
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