Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) will defend Virginia’s actions to “protect the casting of legal ballots” after the Department of Justice said it would sue the state for removing thousands of noncitizens from voter registration rolls “too close” to Election Day.
The DOJ announced the lawsuit Thursday, arguing that Virginia state election officials’ move to clean up voter lists near the beginning of August came “too close to the Nov. 5 general election” and violated the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.
“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.”
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