DOJ Sues Virginia for Purging Voter Rolls Close to Election

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The Justice Department (DOJ) filed a lawsuit against Virginia on Friday, alleging that the state violated federal law by removing potential noncitizen voters from the rolls too close to the general election.

In a court filing, the DOJ alleged that Virginiaโ€™s voter removal program violated the โ€œQuiet Period Provisionโ€ in the National Voter Registration Act, which requires that states complete their programs for removing ineligible voters from active rolls no later than 90 days before an election.

โ€œCongress adopted the National Voter Registration Actโ€™s quiet period restriction to prevent error-prone, eleventh hour efforts that all too often disenfranchise qualified voters,โ€ Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke said in a statement.

The complaint, filed on Oct. 11, also named the state Board of Elections and Virginia Commissioner of Elections Susan Beals as defendants.

According to the complaint, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed an executive order in August requiring the commissioner to certify that daily updates to the stateโ€™s voter lists were being conducted.

These updates involved comparing the list of individuals identified as noncitizens by the State Department of Motor Vehicles โ€œto the list of existing registered voters,โ€ the DOJ stated.

Local registrars were then required to notify those voters and ask them to affirm their citizenship within 14 days, or they will be removed from the list of registered voters, it added.

The DOJ said the process has resulted in U.S. citizens having their voter registrations canceled. The state removed 6,303 individuals from the rolls between January 2022 and July 2024, according to the complaint.

It further alleged that local registrars had no discretion to prevent the cancellation of voters who fail to return โ€œan affirmation of citizenshipโ€ even if they have reason to believe that those voters are U.S. citizens.

โ€œThis systematic voter removal program, which the State is conducting within 90 days of the upcoming federal election, violates the Quiet Period Provision,โ€ the DOJ said in a statement.

Youngkin criticized the Biden administration for filing the lawsuit with less than 30 days before the election and said that he had โ€œappropriatelyโ€ enforced the law.

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