The U.S. Department of Justice (snort,
giggle) is suing Virginia, alleging that the commonwealth removed
noncitizens from its voter rolls too close to Election Day. Say what?
The preposterously named Department of
Justice (DOJ) alleges that Old Dominion’s Board of Elections-- and Susan Beals,
Virginia Commissioner of Elections-- violated the federal National Voter
Registration Act (NVRA) which decrees that states must tidy up their voter
rolls no later than 90 days before an election under a clause ludicrously known
as the Quiet Period Provision (QPP).
This is akin to the FBI suing a police
department for arresting drunk drivers too close to their destination. It is
insane. If you are not a citizen you don’t (and shouldn’t) have the right to
vote in this—or any other-- country’s elections, presidential or otherwise. If,
as an alien, you don’t have the right to vote 6 months before an election, you
don’t suddenly accrue the right to vote, say, 30 days before that election
without being granted citizenship. What’s more, ‘Election Day’ in America has
been rendered an anachronistic phrase in this post-COVID era. A voter may be
able to send in a mail-in ballot weeks or months before ‘Election Day.’ And
some states may count votes for days or weeks after ‘Election Day.’ ‘Election
Season’ would be more accurate. Ergo, should states be legally unable to clean
up their voter rolls too close to Election Season?
So, apparently, states must keep in
mind that there is a limited window in which to try to curtail crime and
protect the votes of its citizens from being rendered moot. If a state wants to
do the right thing, it better do it quickly, by God, because if a right thing
isn’t done with the utmost haste it is no longer the right thing. DUH!!
Even Kamala Harris could tell them
that.
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