“Let’s be clear about what just happened: only 11 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. Almost all these individuals had previously presented immigration documents confirming their noncitizen status, a fact recently verified by federal authorities.”
“This is a Virginia law passed in 2006, signed by then-Governor Tim Kaine, that mandates certain procedures to remove noncitizens from the voter rolls, with safeguards in place to affirm citizenship before removal – and the ultimate failsafe of same-day registration for US citizens to cast a provisional ballot. This law has been applied in every Presidential election by Republicans and Democrats since enacted 18 years ago. Virginia will immediately petition the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and, if necessary, the US Supreme Court, for an emergency stay of the injunction,” says vest guy Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin in an angry statement Friday after a federal judge ordered him to stop breaking the law and purging voter rolls less than 90 days before an election.