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[Watch China, October 26, 2024](Compiled by Watch China reporter Gao Yun) The U.S. federal court recently ordered the state of Virginia to stop its action to clear out non-citizen voters and requested that the voter qualifications of 1,500 people be restored. It believed that the state government’s identification process was too excessive. Hasty. In response, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin said on Friday (October 25) that he would appeal. It is forbidden to create mirror websites on Chinese websites. Return to the genuine Chinese website.

According to the “Washington Times” report, the judge said in the ruling that the state government’s approach violated federal law, which explicitly prohibits large-scale purges of voter rolls within 90 days before a federal election.

But Youngkin insists that these people are self-declared noncitizens and that under Virginia law, the state not only has the right but the responsibility to remove them from the voter rolls.

“Let’s be clear about what just happened: With just 11 days left before the presidential election, a federal judge ordered the state of Virginia to put more than 1,500 self-identified non-citizens back on the voter rolls. Nearly all of them had previously provided immigration documents Confirming his non-citizen status, a fact that has recently been verified by federal authorities,” the Republican governor stressed.

Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia announced the ruling, granting an injunction to restore the names. She rejected Virginia’s request to stay the ruling while it appeals.

The ruling is the latest development in recent disputes over state purges of non-citizen voter rolls. Just earlier this month, Alabama was ordered to reinstate the voter eligibility of thousands of people due to a similar purge.

In both cases, the Biden administration’s judicial branch and left-leaning voting rights groups have aggressively pushed for the courts to intervene.

In August of this year, Youngkin asked the election department to review the voter rolls every day to screen for ineligible voters, including non-citizens.

According to federal law, the 90 days before an election are a “quiet period” and systematic voter purges are prohibited, but qualification reviews can be conducted on a case-by-case basis.

The Justice Department argued that the cleanup ordered by Youngkin violated the quiet period and that errors were made during its execution.

According to documents submitted to the court by the Department of Justice, taking Loudoun County as an example, the county purged 102 voters during the silent period, but 3 of them later confirmed their citizenship and 8 people have re-completed voter registration, confirming that the purge process was indeed There were errors.

The key issue that the court needs to decide now is whether Youngkin’s cleanup order constitutes a systemic cleanup.

The judge’s order does not affect the results of previous cleanups. According to Youngkin, from January 2022 to July 2024 (that is, before the current federal election silent period), the state government has cleared 6303 people.

The Virginia government said it identifies ineligible voters based on their own records, primarily based on the citizenship information they filled out on their driver’s license application forms.

Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares expressed strong dissatisfaction with the Department of Justice’s intervention and the court’s ruling.

He posted on social media: “It should never be illegal to disqualify illegal voters. Yet today, with the push of the Biden-Harris Department of Justice, the court ordered Virginia to requalify non-citizens just days before the presidential election. be included in the electoral roll.”

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