VA Files Supreme Court Case to Purge Voter Rolls Before the Election
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin has been doing everything he can to clean up the voter rolls in his state.
At every step, Democrats have fought him.
Now, Virginia is appealing a decision made in the lower courts that blocked Youngkin from being able to purge suspected noncitizens from the voting rolls.
Always Resistance
There are two things about all of this that I just don’t understand.
First, I don’t understand the resistance by the courts or Democrats to clean up voter rolls when you know there are going to be accusations of voter fraud, especially if Trump loses.
Second, I don’t understand why everyone is waiting until the last second.
In this case, Youngkin revived a program in August to help clean up the state’s voting rolls.
This resulted in 1600 people being removed from the voter rolls who had not given proof of American citizenship.
The Biden administration challenged the decision, and U.S. District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles ordered the names restored to the voter rolls.
Youngkin took the case to the 4th Circuit, which declined it. So, the case is now being appealed to the Supreme Court.
The order by Giles blocks the state from “continuing any systematic program intended to remove the names of ineligible voters from registration lists less than 90 days before the November 5, 2024, federal General Election.”
Erika Maley, the state’s solicitor general, in her appeal to the Supreme Court, stated that she believes Giles has misinterpreted the law, adding, “States are free to systematically remove noncitizens, as well as minors and fictitious persons, at any time, including within 90 days of an election, without running afoul of the NVRA.”
Maley also pointed out that if any of these 1600 removed can prove they are U.S. citizens, they can still cast a provisional ballot on election day.
I fully support the case by Virginia, but I am not hopeful the state will get relief from the Supreme Court, especially since the appeals court has already declined the case.
The Supreme Court has been very hesitant to take such cases or overturn lower courts in these types of situations, so I tend to lean toward the court rejecting the case altogether, especially this close to election day.
