There’s lots of controversy over whether Virginia is really in sing for 2024, but one thing is sure: several polls have shown the contest neck-and-neck within the margin of error. Joe Biden’s leave from the competition may have been a result of the possibility that Donald Trump was roll Virginia. Yes, there have been surveys that showed Kamala Harris to have a strong lead there as well, but we wo n’t know until after Election Day.
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Governor Virginia’s sign that things were going well for Trump was encouraging. When he had the voter rolls in his position reviewed and dozens of non-citizens removed from the voter rolls, Glenn Youngkin’s executive order mandated that all vote for the 2024 presidential poll been cast by report vote.
I believe Virginia is in enjoy because a federal judge only decreed that all noncitizens who had been removed from the voter rolls would be reinstated following a lawsuit brought by the Biden-Harris management.
A federal judge on Friday ordered Virginia to reactivate more than 1,600 voter registrations, which she claimed were illegally purged in the previous two months in an effort to prevent noncitizens from casting ballots.
The Justice Department claimed that the voter registrations were improperly canceled during a 90-day quiet period prior to the November election, which forbids states from altering their voter rolls to a large extent. U.S. District Judge Patricia Giles granted an injunction against Virginia election officials.
Many of the 1, 600 voters whose registrations were canceled were actually citizens whose registrations were canceled due to bureaucratic errors or minor errors, according to the Justice Department and private organizations, including the League of Women Voters.
In a hearing for an all-day injunction on Thursday in Alexandria, Virginia, Justice Department lawyer Sejal Jhaveri claimed that this is precisely why federal law forbids states from making systematic changes to the voter rolls in the 90 days before an election,” to prevent the harm of having eligible voters removed in a period where it’s difficult to remedy.”
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U. S. District Judge Patricia Giles is a Biden appointee.
Youngkin criticized the injunction and pointed out that all of the voters who the state removed from the voter rolls had registered as noncitizens.
” Let’s be clear about what just happened: only eleven days before a Presidential election, a federal judge ordered Virginia to reinstate over 1, 500 individuals–who self-identified themselves as noncitizens–back onto the voter rolls”, Youngkin said in a statement. ” As of late, almost all of these individuals had previously presented immigration documents confirming their noncitizen status,” according to federal authorities.
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The law that was signed by then-Governor Tim Kaine in 2006 mandates specific procedures for removing noncitizens from the voter rolls, including guarantees for affirming citizenship before removal, and the ultimate failure to allow U.S. citizens to register for the same day as they do so for provisional ballots, Youngkin continued. Since it was passed 18 years ago, this law has been used by Republicans and Democrats in every presidential election.
Youngkin added that” Virginia will immediately petition the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and, if necessary, the U. S. Supreme Court, for an emergency stay of the injunction”.
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Giles was nominated by Biden for a seat on the federal bench in June 2021, and she received confirmation from the Senate in October that year.