Youngkin: DOJ Is Suing VA over ‘Common Sense’ Law that Cuts Noncitizens from Voter Rolls

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Youngkin: DOJ Is Suing VA over ‘Common Sense’ Law that Cuts Noncitizens from Voter Rolls

Pam Key 20 Oct 2024

Governor Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) said on this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday” that the Department of Justice was suing his state over a “common sense” law that removes noncitizens from voter rolls.

Youngkin said, “To be clear, this is not a purge. This is based on a law that was signed into effect in 2006 by then-Democrat Gov. Tim Kaine. And it starts with a basic premise that when someone walks into one of our DMVs and self-identifies as a noncitizen, and then they end up on the voter rolls, either purposely or by accident, that we go through a process, individualized – not system, not systematic – an individualized process based on that person’s self-identification as a noncitizen to give them 14 days to affirm they are a citizen and if they don’t, they come off the voter rolls. And by the way, they have one last safeguard, which is they can come and same day register and cast a provisional ballot. So to describe this as something as a purge is wholly inaccurate.”

He continued, “Back in 2006, the then-Justice Department actually approved of this law and said that it is not only further constitutional, but we have given it thorough review, and we’re OK with you moving ahead with it. Now, 25 days last week before the election, a Justice Department decides they are going to bring suit after this law has been in effect for 18 years, administered by Democrat and Republican governors. And this is the reason why I believe that Americans and Virginians wonder what the Justice Department is up to. It’s been in effect for 18 years. It’s been applied universally by Republican and Democrat governors. And now all of a sudden, when Virginia is getting tight, it launches a lawsuit against the Commonwealth of Virginia when we are trying to make sure that citizens vote, not noncitizens.”

Youngkin added, “It is common sense. Listen, elections in the United States should be decided by citizens.”

https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2024/10/20/youngkin-doj-is-suing-va-over-common-sense-law-that-cuts-noncitizens-from-voter-rolls/

[rangerrebew]

Federal judge orders Virginia to place non-citizens back on voter rolls
The Department of Justice sued Virginia earlier this month over removing non-citizens from its voter rolls ahead of the November election.

 
By Natalia Mittelstadt
Published: October 25, 2024 11:26am

Updated: October 25, 2024 3:00pm
 
A federal judge in Virginia on Friday ordered the commonwealth to place non-citizens back on its voter rolls.
 
The judge ruled that removing the registered voters from the rolls violated federal law, WRIC reported.

The Justice Department sued Virginia earlier this month over removing non-citizens from its rolls ahead of the Nov. 5 elections.

The suit was against the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Virginia State Board of Elections, and the Virginia Commissioner of Elections for allegedly violating the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.

https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/federal-judge-orders-virginia-place-non-citizens-back-voter-rolls

[libertybele]

What rights do non-citizens have????

[Sighlass]

Wasn't this judge a Trump appointee?

[Smokin Joe]

Wasn't this judge a Trump appointee?

They've had 4 years to get bought out.

From the Virginia Constitution:

Article I. Bill of Rights
Section 6. Free elections; consent of governed

That all elections ought to be free; and that all men, having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with, and attachment to, the community, have the right of suffrage, and cannot be taxed, or deprived of, or damaged in, their property for public uses, without their own consent, or that of their representatives duly elected, or bound by any law to which they have not, in like manner, assented for the public good.

As non citizens, that evidence of permanent common interest is arguably lacking, and no suffrage should be granted.