Virginia Department Of Elections Has Been Complicit For Years In Registering Noncitizens To Vote: County GOP

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Virginia bureaucrats have failed at multiple steps to keep the state’s voter rolls clean, according to the Fairfax Republican Party.

The Biden-Harris administration is conducting an election interference campaign in Virginia by filing a lawsuit to ensure noncitizens remain on the voter rolls, but the commonwealth’s own Department of Elections (ELECT) has been complicit in registering ineligible voters for over a decade, according to one county Republican Party.

While the Biden-Harris election meddling comes after Gov. Glenn Youngkin, R-Va., removed 6,303 noncitizens from voter rolls between January 2022 and July 2024, the Fairfax County Republican Party noted that “from at least 2011” and “enabled by the Department of Motor Vehicles,” “Virginia bureaucrats allowed thousands of noncitizens onto Virginia’s voter rolls.”

The Fairfax GOP is fully supportive of Youngkin’s Executive Order 35, which removed the noncitizens, prompting the left-wing lawfare assault against the enforcement of Virginia’s constitutional requirement that an eligible voter be a “citizen of the United States.” Fairfax GOP Chairwoman Katie Gorka said that “Youngkin is defending the citizens of the commonwealth by cleaning up our voter rolls.”

Gorka told The Federalist, however, that “we feel very, very, very supportive of Governor Youngkin, that he has taken this stance. But I’ll tell you the other thing, only 6,303 have been removed from the voter rolls: I think the number is in the tens-of-thousands of those who should be removed from the voter rolls. And that’s why, we are both supporting Governor Youngkin, but saying we need to do more.”

In a scathing press release, the Fairfax GOP, which represents the commonwealth’s largest county by population, said that government bureaucrats dating back at least to the administration Virginia’s last Republican governor, Bob McDonnell, who took office in 2010, helped noncitizens register to vote illegally.

For a decade between 2013 and May of 2023, the DMV never provided ELECT with document numbers from noncitizens legally present in the United States, according to the press release. Using the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program, those numbers are instrumental in allowing ELECT to verify the citizenship status of individuals registering to vote.