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A polling place sign is displayed outside a polling location on the first day of Virginia's in-person early voting at Long Bridge Park Aquatics and Fitness Center on September 20, 2024, in Arlington, Virginia.The U.S. Supreme Court issued an order on Wednesday lifting an injunction against Virginia Republican officials’ attempt to purge hundreds of names from voter registration rolls across the state.
It’s unclear which of the nine justices ruled for lower courts’ stays to be lifted. However, all three liberal bloc members — Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson — indicated that they would deny the application to block the lower courts’ rulings. Lawrence Otey, a resident of Roanoke, Virginia, who has been voting for decades, was one of the voters purged from the rolls. “I’ve been voting since Jimmy Carter,”
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