The U.S. Department of Justice is suing the Commonwealth of Virginia, accusing them of removing voters from rolls too close to Election Day. Virginia has worked to remove noncitizens and residents who have failed to confirm their residency after Governor Glenn Youngkin signed an executive order aimed at election integrity earlier this year.
The complaint alleges that the state Board of Elections and Virginia Commissioner of Elections Susan Beals violated the federal National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), which mandates that states must complete voter roll maintenance no later than 90 days before an election under a clause known as the Quiet Period Provision.
The agency is accusing Governor Youngkin of violating the NVRA by requiring the state’s election commissioner to regularly update the state’s voter logs to remove individuals who have been “identified as noncitizens,” or have failed to respond to requests to verify citizenship within 14 days.
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As a result of Youngkin’s executive order, the state has removed 6,303 individuals from voter logs. “The Executive Order formalized the Program and announced that 6,303 individuals had been removed from the rolls pursuant to the same process between January 2022