"Virginians - and Americans - will see this for exactly what it is: a desperate attempt to attack the legitimacy of the elections in the Commonwealth, the very crucible of American Democracy," Gov. Glenn Youngkin said.

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The Department of Justice has sued Virginia over removing non-citizens from its voter rolls ahead of the November election.

The DOJ announced the suit Friday against the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Virginia State Board of Elections, and the Virginia Commissioner of Elections for allegedly violating the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.

The NVRA prevents states from using systematic programs to remove ineligible voters from voter rolls within 90 days of a federal election, according to the DOJ.

“As the National Voter Registration Act mandates, officials across the country should take heed of the law’s crystal clear and unequivocal restrictions on systematic list maintenance efforts that fall within 90 days of an election,” Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke said in a statement.

“By cancelling voter registrations within 90 days of Election Day, Virginia places qualified voters in jeopardy of being removed from the rolls and creates the risk of confusion for the electorate. Congress adopted the National Voter Registration Act’s quiet period restriction to prevent error-prone, eleventh hour efforts that all too often disenfranchise qualified voters," she added. "The right to vote is the cornerstone of our democracy and the Justice Department will continue to ensure that the rights of qualified voters are protected."

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) slammed the DOJ over the litigation.

"With less than 30 days until the election, the Biden-Harris Department of Justice is filing an unprecedented lawsuit against me and the Commonwealth of Virginia, for appropriately enforcing a 2006 law signed by Democrat Tim Kaine that requires Virginia to remove noncitizens from the voter rolls - a process that starts with someone declaring themselves a non-citizen and then registering to vote," Youngkin said in a statement Friday.

"Virginians - and Americans - will see this for exactly what it is: a desperate attempt to attack the legitimacy of the elections in the Commonwealth, the very crucible of American Democracy. With the support of our Attorney General, we will defend these commonsense steps, that we are legally required to take, with every resource available to us. Virginia’s election will be secure and fair, and I will not stand idly by as this politically motivated action tries to interfere in our elections, period."

The DOJ lawsuit come two weeks after the department sued Alabama for removing ineligible voters from its voter rolls.

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This is truly disgusting.

I'm shocked. SHOCKED, I tell you.

This is election interference by a federal department. SOB Garland should be in prison.

They will all get what is coming to them once this election is over.

And to think this POS could have been on the SCOTUS!

Yeah, despite what we think of Mitch, we owe him the block on this POS getting on SCOTUS.

Thank Heaven for Glenn Youngkin.

I hope Lt. Governor Sears can succeed him in the next term.

Sounds like the friends of Kaine in high places are afraid he's going to lose.

I hope Kaine loses handily. ;P

I guess it’s too late to get all the dead people and illegals back on the rolls.

Good

This Administration once again displays where it stands on the issue of electoral integrity: they want to continue to stuff the ballot.

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They will all get what is coming to them once this election is over.

We like to think so, but I'll be surprised if it actually happens. Even if Elon guts things by 80% on behalf of the new Trump administration I doubt any meaningful prosecutions will take place.

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
They will all get what is coming to them once this election is over.

We like to think so, but I'll be surprised if it actually happens. Even if Elon guts things by 80% on behalf of the new Trump administration I doubt any meaningful prosecutions will take place.

There is no chance they’ll get what they deserve. We’re too civilized to boil people in oil or tar and feather them these days.

Prosecutions would be nice and might reduce the likelihood of future tomfoolery, but are probably unlikely. There is going to be an Augean stables level task cleaning things up. While prosecutions would be great, I wouldn’t be offended if PDJT and his administration concentrate on cleaning up the mess instead of prosecuting those who deserve it. Don’t get me wrong, it would be great to see a lot of folks sentenced to spend a long time making pea gravel out of large rocks. It just may not be the most important thing to get done.

Youngkin goes on media blitz in fight against ‘unprecedented’ DOJ voter lawsuit

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Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) took to the airwaves to fight back against the Department of Justice’s new lawsuit against the commonwealth of Virginia, charging that the “unprecedented” lawsuit has ulterior motives.

The DOJ sued the commonwealth after Youngkin issued an executive order in August that removed over 6,300 noncitizens from the state’s voter registration rolls, with the lawsuit stating they were removed “too close” to Election Day. The governor argued that he had used a law signed by former Gov. Tim Kaine (D-VA) in 2006, and Virginia governors have used this law since then to clean up its voter registration rolls.

“Here I am a governor, mandated, and oh, by the way, proud to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of the commonwealth of Virginia, and by law to make sure we have clean voter rolls, and the Department of Justice shows up 25 days before a presidential election and says ‘stop doing that,’” Youngkin said on Fox News’s Hannity. “To me, this is unprecedented, and I think it represents a Department of Justice that is trying to achieve something other than fair and free elections.”

Youngkin added that the DOJ’s lawsuit is “the next step in a pattern” to undermine the confidence voters have in the election process. He also said his executive order was taken to ensure election integrity is upheld in Virginia.

On CNN, Youngkin questioned why the DOJ waited less than a month before Election Day to pursue this lawsuit, saying it “seems far more political” right now than if they had done so earlier. He added that he firmly believes the DOJ is wrong with this lawsuit.

“Why is it that anyone could argue that a process that removes noncitizens off of our voter rolls is anything else other than common sense and Constitutional?” Youngkin asked network anchor Jake Tapper. “And that’s my frustration with this whole process, which is it started 25 days before a presidential election.”

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Keep openly asking why the Biden DOJ is fighting to keep illegal voters on the books. Do not stop. Make the leftists try and defend this reprehensible tactic. Openly.

This is no longer bizarre, this is the left's new normal. I predict they will get their asses handed to them.

We hope. Left wing nut judges rule wrong all the time based on political and personal gain, even when it's clear as common sense otherwise.

Well, perhaps it is best to blame the DMV…
Susan Beales, the Governor’s appointment as Chair of the State Elections Commission, reported that almost all of the purged voters were people who failed to check the proper boxes relating to citizenship when transacting with the DMV.
Last year 3400 legitimate voters were removed from the roles after being flagged as repeat felons. They weren’t.
The local registrars, who are responsible for notifying purged voters and provide the opportunity to correct the records, have said there are very few instances of voters who are actually purged after going through the reconciliation process. The closer to Election Day, the more unlikely the proscribed timeline allows legitimate voters to correct the record.
So the database is inaccurate. It seems to me that when your own appointees, and the local people on the ground (the registrars) are saying the source data is wrong, then the approach the Governor is using is too heavy handed.

Federal judge orders Virginia to place non-citizens back on voter rolls

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A federal judge in Virginia on Friday ordered the commonwealth to place non-citizens back on its voter rolls.

The judge ruled that removing the registered voters from the rolls violated federal law, WRIC reported.

The Justice Department sued Virginia earlier this month over removing non-citizens from its rolls ahead of the Nov. 5 elections.

The suit was against the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Virginia State Board of Elections, and the Virginia Commissioner of Elections for allegedly violating the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.

The NVRA prevents states from using systematic programs to remove ineligible voters from voter rolls within 90 days of a federal election, according to the DOJ.

While Virginia argued that the non-citizens removed from the voter rolls are ineligible to vote, the judge ruled that they were illegally removed too close to the election.

“Let’s be clear about what just happened: only eleven days before a Presidential election, a federal judge ordered Virginia to reinstate over 1,500 individuals–who self-identified themselves as noncitizens–back onto the voter rolls,” Virginia GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin said in a statement. “Almost all these individuals had previously presented immigration documents confirming their noncitizen status, a fact recently verified by federal authorities.”

"Virginia will immediately petition the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and, if necessary, the U.S. Supreme Court, for an emergency stay of the injunction," he added.

Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares (R) posted on X a statement saying that he will appeal the decision.

"It should never be illegal to remove an illegal voter. Yet, today a Court – urged by the Biden-Harris Department of Justice – ordered Virginia to put the names of non-citizens back on the voter rolls, mere days before a presidential election," Miyares said. "The Department of Justice pulled this shameful, politically motivated stunt 25 days before Election Day, challenging a Virginia process signed into law 18 years ago by a Democrat governor and approved by the Department of Justice in 2006.

"More concerning is the open practice by the Biden-Harris administration to weaponize the legal system against the enemies of so-called progress. That is the definition of lawfare. To openly choose weaponization over good process and lawfare over integrity isn’t democracy: it’s bullying, pure and simple, and I always stand up to bullies. In the meantime, I encourage every Virginian to exercise their right to vote. Rest assured, I will never stop fighting to preserve the integrity of our election process. The Commonwealth of Virginia will appeal this decision – all the way to the Supreme Court, if necessary."