DOJ sues Virginia over voter roll purge [View all]
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Source: The Hill
10/11/24 7:25 PM ET
The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced a lawsuit against the state of Virginia for purging voter rolls on Friday. The department claims state officials violated the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA) by challenging voters’ eligibility too close to the November election.
“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,” said Kristen Clarke, assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights Division.
In early August, Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-Va.) signed an executive order confirming there were “daily” updates to the voter list. These updates included “compar[ing] the list of individuals who have been identified as non-citizens” by the State Department of Motor Vehicles “to the list of existing registered voters.” Local registrars were then required to contact challenged voters to inform them they were “pending cancellation” unless they “affirm their citizenship” within 14 days.
DOJ said the process led to some Virginians’ voter registration being cancelled. “Systematic removal programs are more error-prone than other forms of list maintenance, and eligible voters placed on the path to removal days or weeks before Election Day may be deterred from voting or unable to participate in the election on the same terms that they would have but for the Commonwealth’s error,” read the legal filing.
Read more: https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4929789-doj-sues-virginia-voter-rolls/
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