Virginia’s Voting Integrity

The Supreme Court gives the Old Dominion the green light to purge its voting rolls of non-citizens.

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President Clinton signing the 'Motor Voter' Act into law, May 20, 1993. Via Wikimedia Commons

The Supreme Court’s order today letting Virginia purge some 1,600 non-citizens from the voter rolls could go a ways toward allaying jitters over election integrity as November 5 nears. The fact that the dispute had to be addressed by the high court, though, is in itself shocking. Chalk it up to a federal intrusion into state election laws, the so-called “Motor Voter” law, that required states to let people register to vote when they applied for drivers’ licenses.

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