DOJ Sues Virginia Over Enforcement of 2006 Law Removing Noncitizens from Voter Lists

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DOJ Sues Virginia Over Enforcement of 2006 Law Removing Noncitizens from Voter Lists
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The Department of Justice announced that it was filing a lawsuit against the “State of Virginia, Virginia State Board of Elections and Virginia Commissioner of Elections” over the state’s enforcement of a 2006 law, removing non-citizens from voter lists.that the removal of voters from “election rolls” so close to the upcoming presidential election violated “Section 8” of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, “also known as the Quiet Period Provision.

Section 8 of the NVRA, also known as the Quiet Period Provision, requires states to complete systematic programs aimed at removing the names of ineligible voters from voter registration lists no later than 90 days before federal elections.

Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke with the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division explained that “by cancelling voter registrations within 90 days” of an election, “qualified voters” in the state were placed at risk “of being removed from the rolls.”

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