The U.S. Supreme Court has allowed Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin to wrongfully remove qualified voters from the voting rolls less than one week before the 2024 presidential election.
This misguided and eleventh-hour ruling permits Virginia to disenfranchise over 1,600 eligible Virginia voters based on unreliable data and discriminatory lies unfairly targeting naturalized and qualified U.S. citizens.
Campaign Legal Center (CLC) is representing the Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights (VACIR), the League of Women Voters of Virginia (LWVVA), and African Communities Together (ACT) in the fight against this purge program. We are disappointed and alarmed that the Supreme Court is reinstating this harmful program.
Regardless of this outrageous decision, the voters will decide this election, not the courts. Campaign Legal Center will continue to fight alongside Virginians to ensure that they are able to participate in our democracy.
Qualified Virginia voters should know that regardless of this purge, they can register to vote on Election Day and cast their ballots. Virginia allows voters to register at their polling place on Election Day.
Eligible voters in Virginia who find themselves removed from the rolls should re-register at their polling place when they go to cast their ballot.
Voters can learn more and check their registration at VOTE411.org.
If you have questions or concerns on how to use Virginia’s same day registration process, call or text the Election Protection Hotline at 866-OUR-VOTE, or call one of the bilingual Election Protection hotlines at 888-VE-Y-VOTA (Spanish); 844-YALLA-US (Arabic); or 888-API-VOTE (Bengali, Cantonese, Hindi, Korean, Mandarin, Punjabi, Tagalog, Urdu, and Vietnamese).
Naturalized citizens are immigrants who have worked hard to become American citizens and have the same freedom to vote as all other Americans. Our democracy is strongest when every voter has the opportunity to participate.
We will continue to fight to ensure all qualified voters can exercise their freedom to vote.