Supreme Court's last-minute decision affects thousands of Virginia voters
Virginia gets green light to remove questionable voter registrations just days before presidential election. Courtʼs ruling impacts about 1600 people whose citizenship status needs verification
The Supreme Court made a split-choice that lets Virginia remove around 1‚600 voter names from its lists right before election day (which is happening in less than 7 days)
Glenn Youngkin‚ Virginiaʼs leader started this clean-up back in Aug-2024 looking at driverʼs license info to find non-citizens; a move that got stopped by lower courts but now got Supreme Courts ok. The timing is tight – its just days before Donald Trump and Kamala Harris face-off in the big race
Legal folks from Bidenʼs team and pro-immigrant groups dont like this idea saying its catching good voters in its net Some people just missed answering citizenship questions or became citizens after getting their drivers license. “The only question in this case is when and how they may do so“ – thats what Elizabeth B Prelogar wrote to the court
The whole thing started when Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles said no-way to this plan cause of a rule that says dont mess with voter lists 90 days before big elections; but higher-ups didnt agree. Its part of a bigger picture where Republicans are pushing for stricter voting rules in different states
Meanwhile theres more election stuff happening in other places:
- Pennsylvaniaʼs dealing with wrong envelope problems
- Nevadaʼs got mail-date marking issues
- Mississippiʼs thinking about when to count late votes
The courts getting pretty busy with all these last-minute voting cases; and experts think more are coming before election day
