Youngkin blasts DOJ voter-roll lawsuit as ‘politically motivated’

Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) expressed his frustration with the Department of Justice’s recent lawsuit against Virginia for allegedly violating federal election law.

The DOJ sued Virginia for violating the federal prohibition on systematic efforts to remove voters within 90 days of an election after Youngkin signed an executive order requiring the commissioner of the Department of Elections to certify that the department was conducting “daily updates to the voter list” to purge the voter rolls of people who are unable to verify that they are citizens to the state Department of Motor Vehicles.