Democrats sue to allow non-citizens to vote in Virginia

On August 7 of this year, Governor Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) signed Executive Order 35, which codified Virginia’s election procedures, including the use of paper-only ballots, the use of counting machines instead only voting machines, a strict chain of custody. for all ballots and the daily maintenance of electoral lists.

This daily maintenance of voter rolls, under Youngkin’s order, now includes data from the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles, specifically a list of all residents who identified themselves as non-citizens when filling out a DMV form.

This list is then sent to county registrars who compare it to the existing voter registration list. If self-identified non-citizens appear on the voter roll, they are informed that they have 14 days to assert their citizenship or they will be removed from the voter roll.

“This is not a Democratic or Republican issue, this is an American and Virginia issue. Every legal vote deserves to be counted without being watered down by illegal votes or inaccurate machines,” Youngkin said at the time. “We verify the legal presence and identity of voters using DMV data and other reliable data sources to update our voter rolls daily, not only adding new voters, but also cleaning the rolls to remove those who should not be there, such as deceased people, individuals who should not be there. have moved and non-citizens who accidentally or maliciously attempted to register.

Although Youngkin’s executive order was announced in August, the Biden-Harris Justice Department waited until October 10 to file a lawsuit to stop its enforcement. The Biden-Harris administration claimed that Youngkin’s executive order was considered a systemic program to suppress ineligible voters under the National Voter Registration Act, which the NVRA says is not permitted 90 days before an election.

The Biden-Harris administration’s complaint asserted in its opening paragraph that “there is no evidence of widespread non-citizen voting in the United States,” but the rest of the complaint called into question this statement. The complaint said that in the month of September alone, 90 residents who the DMV had identified as non-citizens were removed from Loudoun County’s voter rolls. It is important to note, however, that the complaint did not assert that any of these identified non-citizens were in fact citizens.

The complaint said that before the 90-day deadline, Prince William County removed 162 non-citizens identified by the DMV from its voter rolls and that 43 of them were “probable” citizens. the rollers. Even assuming that the 43 “probable” citizens were citizens, that means more than 120 non-citizens had illegally registered to vote in just one county. When he announced the executive order in August, Youngkin said his efforts thus far had already removed 6,303 noncitizens from the voting rolls.

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While Virginia has more than 6 million registered voters, making just 6,000 seem insignificant, competitive elections can sometimes come down to just hundreds of votes. A 2014 study of the 2008 election found that although only 6.4 percent of noncitizens voted that year, their votes were enough to swing close races and give Democrats all 60 votes in the Senate they needed to pass Obamacare on a purely partisan basis.

“Virginians and Americans will see this for exactly what it is,” Youngkin said of the Biden-Harris trial, “a desperate attempt to attack the legitimacy of elections in the Commonwealth, the very crucible of American democracy “. Youngkin then promised he would defend in court the “common-sense steps” he took to keep Virginia’s elections secure. In the interests of justice and democracy, he must prevail.