Virginia Purges Eligible Voters Weeks Before Hotly Contested Election

[justaprogressive]

Voting rights groups are condemning Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s (R) administration after the Virginia Department of Elections admitted to purging eligible voters from the state’s rolls just weeks before the state’s hotly contested legislative election.

“It is unacceptable that we are two weeks into early voting and the Youngkin administration does not even know how many Virginians they wrongfully purged from the voter rolls,” Aaron Mukerjee, voter protection director for the Democratic Party of Virginia, said in a statement.

Virginia is the only state in the U.S. where people convicted of a felony automatically lose their right to vote unless the governor restores their voting rights. According to VPM, a Virginia public media group, more than 17,000 eligible voters were illegally removed from the state’s rolls as a result of policy changes by ELECT that aimed to remove people from voter rolls who had had their right to vote restored but had later been convicted of a new felony.

However, the thousands of eligible voters who had their voting rights rescinded had technical probation violations, not new felonies. The Virginia State Police (VSP), which is responsible for reporting new felony convictions to the Virginia Department of Elections, had mistakenly provided ELECT with the data of individuals who had committed probation violations, in addition to those who had new felony convictions. Virginia State Police spokesperson Corinne Geller told VPN that this mistake “inadvertently disqualif[ied] individuals whose rights were previously restored by the former Governor.”

[link:https://truthout.org/articles/virginia-purges-eligible-voters-weeks-before-hotly-contested-election/|

[Lonestarblue]

1. Of course they did. Republicans are all about preventing people from voting.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Could expunged voters use provisional ballots

and contest their eligibility?

And were the expunged voters mostly democrats?

[raging moderate]

3. I remember some poor lady got thrown in jail for doing that.

I hope that lady got out of jail soon after that, but I never heard what finally happened in that case.

[Diraven]

18. Crystal Mason

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Mason

[LiberalArkie]

4. Coming soon to Florida and Arkanstan

[randr]

5. Denying voting rights should be equivalent to treason

[LisaM]

6. Florida 2000 all over again.

The Jeb Bush/Katherine Harris playbook.

[NoMoreRepugs]

7. Cons con, cheaters cheat, liars lie, Republicans do it all.

[ancianita]

8. The VA Dept of Elections should be immediately sued.

[housecat]

17. immediately

[FakeNoose]

20. Or postpone the election until this gets straightened out

[ancianita]

21. No sarcasm thingy? You're serious? What possible good would that do?

[FakeNoose]

22. They can get everyone back on the voter registration rolls, for one thing

[bringthePaine]

9. refuKKKchiken BS again - sue rhe fuck out of them, demand restitution before election may be held

[Duppers]

10. My 1st thought too. nt

[SpankMe]

11. Because assholes gonna asshole... n/t

[Alice Kramden]

12. Dirty tricks, cheating, bullying

That's all they do

[Pepsidog]

13. Republicans scum better understand that payback is a bitch. Just ask Traitor Trump.

[onetexan]

14. Rush lawsuit to VA Supreme court now!!

Get those bastards to restore the voter rolls.

[Orrex]

15. I'm sure that this mostly affects older white male voters, right?

[gab13by13]

16. Donald Trump purged 17 million voters in his first 2 years.

Magats need to cheat to win.

[Diraven]

19. How?

Voter rolls are controlled by states. If you're talking about his "Voter Fraud Commission", after a backlash from almost every state it disbanded without taking any action or funding any fraud.

[RussBLib]

23. So are they going to be reinstated?

Sure as fuck oughta be