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BOB LEWIS<\/a><\/h6>\n\n\n\n
OCTOBER 18, 2024 5:27 AM<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

By now, you probably know who will get your vote for mayor, for your congressional seat, for the U.S. Senate and for president. But do you know whether you\u2019re still an eligible voter?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will you arrive at your neighborhood precinct on Nov. 5 and discover that you have been excised from the registered voter rolls weeks before election day without notice and with limited recourse?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Voting used to be one of the easiest and most essential privileges we exercise as Americans. As it should be. But nothing in electoral politics is as simple or easy as it used to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Americans once could take for granted now requires more vigilance and self-education by the voter and more work than ever by election officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cVoter ID laws in the commonwealth have swung like a pendulum over the last decade,\u201d said Nikki Sheridan, who was a top official overseeing Virginia elections under Republican former Gov. Bob McDonnell. \u201cResponsible administrations spent significant amounts of time and money for outreach and education about voter identification legislative changes, and citizens are saturated \u2014 with messages that swing as wildly and frequently as the law changed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This fall, in the stretch run of the bitterly contested election, there\u2019s a new wrinkle: Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin\u2019s 11th-hour order to have elections officials scour Virginia\u2019s voter rolls hunting for noncitizens, an action that the U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit<\/a> on Oct. 14 to halt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The National Voter Registration Act forbids removing voters within 90 days of federal elections, a time known as the \u201cQuiet Period<\/a>.\u201d Youngkin issued Executive Order 35<\/a> commencing the process on Aug. 7, exactly 90 days before the election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It marked the second time in a week the state was sued<\/a> in federal court over Youngkin\u2019s action. The League of Women Voters and the Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights allege in their Oct. 7 complaint<\/a> that the way Virginia purges its rolls violates the federal law\u2019s protections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Youngkin\u2019s order, in large part, restates ongoing and uncontroversial best practices and statutory requirements for safeguarding the security of ballots and those casting them. That includes the universal use of paper ballots to provide a lasting record of a voter\u2019s intent, a strict chain of custody of early ballots and ensuring that computerized counting machines are not linked to the internet to avoid the possibility of remote hacking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then the order directs extraordinary efforts to bar noncitizens from voting, a step an ambitious Republican politico like Youngkin would take as a matter of course to stoke a favored paranoia among his party\u2019s base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The governor has boasted of removing 6,303 people from Virginia\u2019s voter rolls since he took office. On its face, that\u2019s a good thing. Cleansing the voter rolls of noncitizens is required by a 2006 state law signed by then-Gov. Tim Kaine, a Democrat. Evidently, the law works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the Washington Post<\/a>, no noncitizen has attempted to vote in Virginia since Youngkin became governor. The Post also reports that only three people have been prosecuted in the commonwealth for illegal voting of any kind from January of 2022 through July of this year. That\u2019s hardly massive election fraud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enforcing laws that reserve voting in U.S. elections exclusively to U.S. citizens has been a year-round pursuit, according to Chris Piper, who was Virginia\u2019s commissioner of elections from 2018 to 2022 and is now executive director of the Virginia Public Access Project, a nonprofit and nonpartisan data source about state politics and government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Virginia was among the states whose election legislation required Justice Department preclearance under the Voting Rights Act of 1965<\/a> until 2013 when it was ended by a U.S. Supreme Court decision<\/a>. Congress passed the law during the Civil Rights Era to prevent state and local governments, mostly in the South, from erecting barriers to Black Americans\u2019 right to vote. Piper said the Justice Department approved Virginia\u2019s 2006 statute with the unwritten understanding that it would not apply during the Quiet Period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Youngkin\u2019s order echoes the persistent drumbeat of former President and Republican nominee Donald Trump\u2019s pre-emptive and baseless election fraud assertions. They\u2019re rooted in his Big Lie<\/a> and subsequent legal challenges based on it that got bounced out of courthouse after courthouse \u2014 63 in all<\/a> \u2014 following his re-election defeat four years ago. But it remains a battle cry among Trump\u2019s deluded disciples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most vexing consequence of Youngkin\u2019s order, which its critics call a \u201cpurge,\u201d is that it\u2019s much more likely to harm legitimate voters, regardless of party, through paperwork errors and bureaucratic snafus than it is to block illicit interlopers from voting. All it takes is for a bona fide citizen to fail to check the right box on a Department of Motor Vehicles form to trigger their removal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once that error is in the system, as Markus Schmidt and Charlotte Renee Woods of The Mercury reported<\/a>, there is no obligation by either the State Department of Elections or local elections officers to vet and validate the information before a voter\u2019s registration is terminated. Often, a voter isn\u2019t aware of it until she or he tries to cast a ballot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By then, the remedy is to re-register (which, thankfully, is possible up to Election Day) and cast a provisional ballot<\/a> that is subject to scrutiny and perhaps a challenge after the polls close, said Piper and Sheridan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beyond that, Sheridan noted, is the increasingly rancorous process of counting (and sometimes re<\/em>counting) the results. What used to be a dispassionate mathematical exercise  has become snarled in partisan gamesmanship and bizarre conspiracy fantasies, a product of Trump\u2019s toxic and unrelenting election denialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Prince William County, for instance, a prosecution led by Virginia\u2019s GOP-led attorney general\u2019s office against the county registrar over alleged 2020 election improprieties disintegrated once it reached local courts and was dismissed. Yesterday, the former registrar, a professional election administrator named Michele White, sued Attorney General Jason Miyares<\/a> and others in his office in U.S. District Court alleging malicious prosecution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA major shift apparent to me is a lack of civility, often accompanied by an operating assumption that our election officials lack integrity or credibility,\u201d said Sheridan, now a fulltime mom to 5-year-old twins and a volunteer for civic causes in Fluvanna County. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNumerous recent recounts affirm that election results in Virginia are accurate and rarely change the outcome of an election. Infrequent mistakes are human, and allowances must be made. A new registrar, or a seasoned registrar adjusting to a legislative change, is neither a conspiracy participant nor the devil,\u201d Sheridan said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To illustrate her point, she contrasted two recounts in which she was involved, both in Virginia\u2019s 5th Congressional District. One, in 2008, affirmed Democrat Tom Perriello\u2019s thin general election victory over Republican incumbent Virgil Goode. The other was this June\u2019s vicious GOP primary battle in which Trump-supported challenger John McGuire ousted House Freedom Caucus leader Bob Good by 366 votes out of 62,802 cast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As an observer in the 2008 recount, Sheridan eventually struck up a friendship with a Democrat who was part of Perriello\u2019s team, she said. In this summer\u2019s recount, she was the target of withering vituperation from fellow Republicans that included a cyberbullying effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is unfortunate, but I observed the process primarily to defend it mightily against those who may deny the outcome because they do not like it,\u201d she said. \u201cThat is not how electoral democracy works.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even so, Virginia elections are clean, fair and secure.\u00a0Check your registration status<\/a>\u00a0before you head to your polling place. If you get there and find you were mistakenly removed from rolls, seek a\u00a0provisional ballot<\/a>. But whatever you do, exercise your right as a citizen: vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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