As pivotal state elections loom, the team of Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) admits it mistakenly kicked 3,400 off the rolls — far more than the original 270 estimate.
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin participates in a roundtable discussion with education officials and school faculty at Colonial Forge High School in Stafford, Va., in 2022. RICHMOND — Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s elections team has admitted in the run-up to pivotal General Assembly elections that it removed nearly 3,400 qualified voters from the state’s rolls, far higher than the administration’s previous estimate of 270.
Now the 3,400 figure has heightened those concerns. Although that number represents a tiny fraction of the state’s nearly 6 million registered voters, control of the state House and Senate could come down to a handful of very tight races. Lyn McDermid, Youngkin’s secretary of administration, defended the governor’s intentions in a letter sent last week to Mary Bauer, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia, which had sought information about the voter removals.
Virginia is one of a handful of states that limits voting access after a felony conviction. The commonwealth permanently disenfranchises those guilty of violent or nonviolent felonies unless the governor restores their civil rights.
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