Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin is standing up to the federal government again. This time, defending common sense after the Department of Justice announced a lawsuit against Virginia for removing thousands of noncitizens from voter registration rolls too close to Election Day.
The DOJ, in its Thursday announcement, argued that the state’s effort to update its voter lists in early August was “too close” to the Nov. 5 general election and violated the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.
Youngkin is saying not so fast.
The Washington Examiner reports that the Virginia Republican has plans to fight back.
“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,” Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division said in a press release.
Youngkin denounced the DOJ for waiting until Friday to bring the lawsuit against Virginia and said the state would act to “defend these commonsense steps.”
“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 to remove noncitizens from the voter rolls,” Youngkin declared in a statement.
He added that “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.”
Democrats have spent the year insisting that noncitizens do not vote in American elections while stopping all attempts to make sure that noncitizens don’t have the ability to vote in American elections and pushing ways for them to vote.
Concerns over foreign influence in American elections have risen over the past few months. In September, election officials in New Hampshire discovered that the Ukrainian national anthem had been coded into voting machines in that state.
Virginia has removed 6,303 foreigners from voting in the upcoming general election.
Youngkin is 100% correct . The federal government created the law that states that states must review voter rolls every two years to make sure they are accurate. Accurate means the rolls do not contain any ineligible voters. Foreigners ARE NOT ELIGIBLE TO VOTE IN US ELECTIONS. The DOJ will lose this frivolous suite.
Praying for a secure election and that people will begin to see the evil lurking behind every D effort. Whatever they do seems to be very dark. Oust the evil ones who have no business living in a nation under God.