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WASHINGTON D.C. (WSAU) – A pair of rulings in the Commonwealth of Virginia is making national as the state will be required to allow over one thousand non-U.S. citizens to vote in next month’s election as a major publication declines to endorse a candidate for president this cycle.
According to the New York Post, US District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles, who was appointed to the bench by President Biden, ruled on Friday that at least 1,600 noncitizens must be allowed to vote on election day due to a federal election law that bans states from removing voters from voter rolls 90 days before an election, otherwise known as a “quiet period.”
Back in 2006, then Virginia governor Tim Kaine, a Democrat, signed a law into place that required clerks in the Commonwealth to purge voter rolls of noncitizens, but yet the individuals will receive a letter in the mail in the coming days informing them they’ll be able to vote unless they’re a non-citizen due to federal law banning non-citizens from voting. Current Gov. Glenn Youngkin called the ruling “stunning” during an interview with Fox News and noted that almost all of the individuals in question have provided documents to state officials in recent months confirming that they’re in the country illegally. Youngkin added that the Commonwealth intends to appeal the decision and seek an emergency stay in hopes of overturning the ruling.
Meanwhile, the Washington Post announced on Friday that they will be joining the Los Angeles Times in not making an endorsement for president this cycle after endorsing a candidate in every election since 1976. The left-wing outlet had previously endorsed President Joe Biden in 2020, Hilary Clinton in 2016, and President Obama in both 2012 and 2008, but said they see the decision as “consistent with the values The Post has always stood for and what we hope for in a leader: character and courage in service to the American ethic, veneration for the rule of law, and respect for human freedom in all its aspects.”
According to the latest polling, Virginia’s 13 electoral college votes are very much up for grabs, as Quantus Insights has Vice President Harris ahead of former president Trump by just one percentage point in the state, and the final CNN/SSRS national poll shows the race tied with the GOP ahead on the generic ballot by three percentage points. For reference, during the 2020 election, the final CNN/SSRS national poll had President Biden ahead of Trump by twelve percentage points.
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