(Daily Caller) Democrats are fighting to make elections less secure in multiple key states just days before the Nov. 5 election.
Election legislation has already been a focal point of the 2024 campaign, especially as the Republican National Committee (RNC) beefs up its election integrity department, but the battles are set to continue beyond Nov. 5. In the weeks leading up to the election, Democrats have signed legislation prohibiting voter identification while Biden-Harris’s Department of Justice has sued Alabama and Virginia for attempting to take illegal immigrants off their voter rolls.
“What’s so bizarre about that lawsuit, the two lawsuits that DOJ has filed … that is the exact opposite of what DOJ should be doing, it is a criminal violation of federal – in fact, it’s a felony for an alien to register to vote,” Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow focusing on election integrity at the Heritage Foundation, told the Daily Caller.
“And so what the DOJ ought to be doing is going to Virginia and saying, ‘can you please give me the files of each of these voters so we can investigate and potentially prosecute them?’ And no, instead, they’re saying, ‘no, you have to keep on the voter rolls aliens who are breaking federal law,’” von Spakovsky continued.
In August, Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed an executive order to make the state more frequently remove noncitizens from the voter rolls. The DOJ then moved to sue the state on Oct. 12, alleging that the Virginia State Board of Elections had violated the federal National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), which states that voter rolls may not be cleaned up 90 days before an election. Biden’s DOJ further claimed that the executive order, signed 90 days out from Nov. 5, produced a “systemic removal” which can apparently cause voters to be confused and affect eligible voters.
It’s stunning that, just 11 days before the presidential election, a federal judge is ordering Virginia to reinstate individuals who have self-identified as noncitizens on the voter rolls. Virginia is prepared to take this to the U.S. Supreme Court if needed! pic.twitter.com/fyjlWBUlnQ
— Glenn Youngkin (@GlennYoungkin) October 25, 2024
Similarly, Alabama was sued by the Biden-Harris DOJ after Secretary of State Wes Allen identified 3,251 registered voters that had been issued noncitizen identification numbers by the Department of Homeland Security and sought to remove them from the rolls. The DOJ alleged that, like in Virginia, it was too close to election day.
“The right to vote is one of the most sacred rights in our democracy,” Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division said in a statement. “As Election Day approaches, it is critical that Alabama redress voter confusion resulting from its list maintenance mailings sent in violation of federal law.”
In Virginia’s case, Biden-appointed U.S. District Court Judge Patricia Giles issued an order blocking Virginia’s efforts to remove the estimated 1,600 individuals that the state believes have “self-identified” as noncitizens. On Sunday, the Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares said he would be filing an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court in response.
A Trump-appointed judge sided with the DOJ in Alabama and ordered the state restore the voters who they had taken off the voter rolls as a result of Allen’s order.
In Texas, Republican Gov. Greg Abbott previously announced that his administration had purged more than 6,500 noncitizens from state voter rolls. The cleaning of the voter rolls is a result of a 2021 bill Abbott signed into law which instated numerous election security measures like uniform statewide voting hours, banned drive-through voting and gave more power to poll watchers.
“I was surprised they haven’t sued Texas yet. Texas also announced that he did take 6,500 aliens off the voter roll. I’m expecting Texas will get sued by DOJ also,” von Spakovsky told the Caller.
🚨BREAKING — BIDEN-HARRIS DOJ SUES TO KEEP ILLEGALS ON VOTER ROLLS
Yesterday, the Biden-Harris DOJ sued the State of Alabama for fighting to remove potential noncitizens and illegal aliens from their voters rolls ahead of the 2024 election. pic.twitter.com/i2XE9i5sGv
— America First Legal (@America1stLegal) September 28, 2024
