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The U.S. Department of Justice said on Friday it sued the state of Virginia for violating the federal prohibition on systematic efforts to remove voters within 90 days of an election.
On Aug. 7, Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin signed an executive order requiring the commissioner of Department of Elections to certify that the department was conducting “daily updates to the voter list” to remove, among other groups, people who are unable to verify that they are citizens to the Department of Motor Vehicles.
U.S. citizens who were identified and notified, and did not affirm their citizenship within 14 days would be removed from the list of registered voters, the Justice Department said. It said this practice has led to citizens having their voter registrations canceled ahead of the Nov. 5 election.
“By cancelling voter registrations within 90 days of Election Day, Virginia places qualified voters in jeopardy of being removed from the rolls and creates the risk of confusion for the electorate,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke.
That might be true, but then again it might be totally false. If we could actually believe data like yours, we wouldn’t need to have an election in the first place. The same could be said of the more reputable polls, as well. But that’s contradictory, so none of it tells us anything. Wild times.
My gut tells me that Trump isn’t going to get anyone more excited to vote than 4 years ago, but Kamala might. My gut is no more reliable than your gut, but since we really don’t know, I’ll just go with that for now.