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on Monday to step in quickly and halt a recent order by a lower court that forced the state to restore more than 1,600 possible noncitizens to its
The lower court had sided with the Department of Justice and liberal voting rights groups by ordering Virginia election officials on Friday, less than two weeks out from the 2024 election, to stop a process of cross-checking Department of Motor Vehicles data against voter registration lists to check for voters’ citizenship status.
Miyares said Virginia would, because of the order, be forced to restore more than 1,600 “self-identified noncitizens” to its voter registration list, which Miyares said would sow confusion among election officials who had been conducting noncitizen removal efforts for years. “The injunction, which prohibits the application of a law that has been on the books since the Justice Department precleared it in 2006, will also irreparably injure Virginia’s sovereignty, confuse her voters, overload her election machinery and administrators, and likely lead noncitizens to think they are permitted to vote, a criminal offence that will cancel the franchise of eligible voters,” Miyares argued.
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