Re: DOJ "Concerned" About VA Law That Keeps Illegals from Voting

On 2024-10-20 4:10 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

"Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin hit back at the Department of
Justice's lawsuit against the state over an election reform law that he said
was most recently used by previous Democratic state leaders without
intervention from the federal government.
 "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," Youngkin said during an appearance on FOX NEWS SUNDAY,  anchored by
Shannon Bream.
 "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," he added.
 Youngkin was responding to a DOJ suit filed on Oct. 11 alleging the state, its
board of elections and elections commissioner violated a federal law by
carrying out an executive order by Youngkin. The order directs municipal
and/or state officials to cull names of people who are "unable to verify that
they are citizens" to the Department of Motor Vehicles for voter registration
purposes."
  https://www.foxnews.com/politics/youngkin-hits-back-doj-suit-over-common-sense-voting-law-culls-non-citizens-from-voter-rolls
 Note: this law has been in force and applied since 2006.  Suddenly the Justice
Department is "concerned" about the law.
 

Where "suddenly" turns out to be less than three weeks before an election where the Democrats are running neck-and-neck with the Republicans and the Democrats are presently in office. How this legislation wasn't problematic from 2006 until a few weeks ago remains to be explained....
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Rhino