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Attorney General Jason Miyares announced that on Sunday night, the state filed an emergency stay with the US Supreme Court after a federal judge restored approximately 1,600 voters that had been purged from the voter roll under an order issued by Gov. Glenn Youngkin.
"It’s commonsense: noncitizens shouldn’t be on our voter rolls," he posted on social media.
"Thank you (Miyares) for filing immediately with the US Supreme Court for an emergency appeal of the order for Virginia to put over 1,500 people who self-identified as non-citizens back on the voter rolls."
Youngkin made note that the Virginia law passed in 2006 by then-Gov. Tim Kaine "mandates certain procedures to remove noncitizens from the voter rolls, with safeguards in place to affirm citizenship before removal–and the ultimate failsafe of same-day registration for US citizens to cast a provisional ballot."
It has been applied in every presidential election since it was enacted 18 years ago.
"It should never be illegal to remove an illegal voter," Miyares added.
"The Department of Justice pulled this shameful, politically-motivated stunt 25 days before Election Day, challenging a Virginia process signed into law 18 years ago by a Democrat governor and approved by the Department of Justice in 2006."
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