The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing Virginia to purge its voter rolls of non-citizens ahead of the November General Election. The decision has the praise of Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond who had joined an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to stay the preliminary junction from a lower court which prevented Virginia officials from removing self-identified non-citizens.
“This is a victory for election integrity,” Drummond said. “I am pleased the court affirmed the authority of states to police voter qualifications and keep non-citizens from voting.”
The brief argued that both state and federal law gave Virginia the right to remove non-citizens from the rolls.
“Non-citizens are not eligible voters. They were not eligible voters before Congress passed the National Voter Registration Act, they were not eligible when Congress passed the NVRA and they are not eligible today,” the brief stated.
