10/30/2024

SCOTUS Allows Virginia Effort to Strike Possible Noncitizen Voters

The vote was divided along partisan lines

A divided Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) cleared the way Wednesday for Virginia officials to remove about 1,600 voters from the state’s registration rolls less than one week before the presidential election.

Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin (R) asked the justices to intervene after two lower courts blocked his efforts to cancel the registrations of voters who could be noncitizens — an issue Republican officials have seized on nationally to energize supporters even though noncitizen voting is extremely rare.

Youngkin signed an order in August to expedite the removal of registered voters whose driver’s license applications indicated or suggested that they were not U.S. citizens. The effort was opposed by the Justice Department and civil rights groups, who said many of the voters being kicked off the rolls were actually eligible and were targeted because of outdated or erroneous information.

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