The Biden-Harris administration is suing to stop noncitizens from appearing on the voter rolls in Virginia, but one county Republican Party claims that the Commonwealth’s own Department of Elections ( ELECT) has been a complicit in registering ineligible voters for more than ten years.
While the Biden-Harris vote interference comes after governor Glenn Youngkin, R-Va., removed 6, 303 noncitizens from voting floats between January 2022 and July 2024, the Fairfax County Republican Party noted that “from at least 2011” and “enabled by the Department of Motor Vehicles”,” Virginia officials allowed hundreds of noncitizens onto Virginia’s voting rolls”.
The Fairfax GOP supports Youngkin’s Executive Order 35, which removed the noncitizens, prompting the left-wing lawfare abuse against the protection of Virginia’s legal requirement that an available vote be a” citizen of the United States.” Katie Gorka, the president of the Fairfax GOP, stated that” Youngkin is cleaning up our voter rolls to defend the members of the state.”
Gorka told The Federalist, but, that” we feel very, very, very friendly of Governor Youngkin, that he has taken this approach. Simply 6, 303 of those who should be removed from the voter rolls have been removed, in my opinion, which is another fact. And that’s why, we are both supporting Governor Youngkin, but saying we need to complete more”.
In a withering press release, the Fairfax GOP, which represents the state’s largest state by people, said that federal bureaucrats dating back at least to the presidency Virginia’s last Republican governor, Bob McDonnell, who took office in 2010, helped noncitizens register to vote improperly.
According to the media release, the DMV did not provide ELECT with record numbers from noncitizens who were legitimately present in the United States for ten years between 2013 and May 2023. These numbers are crucial in enabling ELECT to verify the citizenship status of individuals registering to vote by using the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements ( SAVE ) program.
Additionally, ELECT did not apply SAVE before August, when Youngkin issued Executive Order 35, despite the fact that ELECT has had exposure to SAVE since 2014, the press release continued.
By refusing to cross-reference voter registrations that originate outside of the DMV with the Social Security Administration, ELECT allegedly missed still another identification opportunity by omitting the possibility of matching governmental records with federal data.
Because the DMV and ELECT keep that information secret from the people they claim to serve, the Virginian citizens, Gorka said in the press release,” We have thousands of election workers and poll watchers to help protect the integrity of this election.”
The Federalist contacted ELECT to demand opinion, but they did not respond.
Administrative powers have stymied Virginia’s standard election integrity laws for more than ten years, so it should come as no surprise that far-left parties in the government and social activist power structures have been criticizing Youngkin’s decision to ensure noncitizens are never casting ballots.
The Biden-Harris management filed a petition to keep illegal citizens in the country, as well as the Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights and the League of Women Voters of Virginia, both of whom filed a separate complaint.
According to Gorka,” They want illegal immigrants to be able to ballot,” adding that Democrats want illegal votes because they fear losing the state. ” Virginia is definitely in enjoy. And I’ll let you know what I believe to be a major factor in Virginia: the Spanish vote. We have a very significant Spanish community in Virginia and all over the nation, and we are seeing them significantly change from the Democrats to the Republicans. But, you put all this up, I think Virginia is certainly a good situation for the Democrats. They’re worried, and but, yes, they are fighting to keep every conceivable illegal on the voter floats”.
Over the summer, the Trump campaign recognized that Virginia, which last voted for a Republican for president in George W. Bush’s 2004 re-election strategy, looked more doable that it had in the history. The battle at the time opened 11 fresh agencies in the state.
Democrats also have significant tribes for U. S. Senate, between Republican Hung Cao and Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., and U. S. House, with all gaze on Virginia’s available 7th District, between Derrick Anderson and Democrat Eugene Vindman, and Virginia’s 2nd District between Rep. Jen Kiggans, R-Va., and Democrat opponent Missy Cotter Smasal.
Breccan F. Thies is an primaries journalist for The Federalist. He formerly covered problems of education and culture for Breitbart News and the Washington Examiner. He is a 2022 Claremont Institute Publius Fellow and holds a degree from the University of Virginia. You may follow him on X: @BreccanFThies.