Breaking: SCOTUS Clears Way to Remove Illegals from Voting Rolls

by
Steve MacDonald

The effort by Virginia to remove ” noncitizens who were not eligible to vote in the first place” can proceed. The US Supreme Court has cleared the way for Virgina.

The Supreme Court on Wednesday temporarily blocked an order by a federal judge that would have required Virginia to return more than 1,600 people to the voter rolls. U.S. District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles found that since early August the state had canceled the registration of more than 1,600 voters – at least some of whom were U.S. citizens eligible to vote – under a program intended to remove suspected noncitizens from the voting rolls.  

In a brief unsigned order on Wednesday morning, the justices granted Virginia’s request to put Giles’ order on hold while a challenge to it continues. Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson indicated that they would have denied the state’s request.

Background.

The Biden administration and several civic and immigrant rights groups went to federal court to challenge an Aug. 7 executive order by Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin. Youngkin directed the state’s department of motor vehicles to provide state election officials with data on a daily basis to allow them to identify and cancel the voter registration of suspected noncitizens unless they could verify their citizenship within 14 days.

The Biden administration and the private challengers contend that Youngkin’s order violates a provision of the National Voter Registration Act known as the “quiet period” provision, which generally prohibits states from “systematically” removing ineligible voters within 90 days of a federal election. …

 Virginia maintained that the NVRA’s “quiet period” provision does not apply to Youngkin’s order because the law does not bar the removal of noncitizens who were not eligible to vote in the first place. But in any event, the state added, its voter-purge program is not the kind of “systematic” program.

The court case will proceed to some conclusion. Whether that happens before we know the results of Nov 5 remains unclear. Federal elections are more like legal pleadings than democratic action in a Republic. The people show up, but then the lawyers argue about what a vote is or when it counts, and for Democrats (who want illegals voting), it keeps counting until they win.

More Background

There’s also 18USC611 called “Voting by Aliens”.  For some reason this law is rarely cited or referenced, even by constitutionally minded election integrity experts. 18USC611 makes it unequivocal and non-debatable that one must be a lawful U.S. Citizen to vote in a U.S. Federal Election.

The challenge is that for decades no one has bothered to verify that these two Federal Laws are operating seamlessly and cooperatively with each other.  There has been this presumption of trust between Motor Voter and 18USC611.  Somehow there is some magical, transparent, auditable process that verifies U.S. Citizenship before a Motor Voter derived name is put on the rolls.  The existence of such a process is a huge presumption of truth – especially when there appears to be no state that conducts audits of such supposed processes and releases the detailed process, the audit process, and results to the public.

But that’s not foreign election interference is it – letting foreigners vote in your election.

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  • Steve MacDonald

    Steve is a long-time New Hampshire resident, blogger, and a member of the Board of directors of The 603 Alliance. He is the owner of Grok Media LLC and the Managing Editor of GraniteGrok.com, a former board member of the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire, and a past contributor to the Franklin Center for Public Policy.

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