Of course, the Associate Press offers really bad headlines
Supreme Court allows Virginia to resume its purge of voter registrations https://t.co/BY6NSKFz0w
— WRAL NEWS in NC (@WRAL) October 30, 2024
A lot of other Credentialed News outlets are running the same headline, as well as the other AP one
Supreme Court’s conservative justices allow Virginia to resume its purge of voter registrations
ZOMG, those horrible conservative justices subverting Democracy, taking the right to vote away! But, at least the story jumps right into the reality
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Wednesday allowed Virginia to resume its purge of voter registrations that the state says is aimed at stopping people who are not U.S. citizens from voting.
The high court, over the dissents of the three liberal justices, granted an emergency appeal from Virginia’s Republican administration led by Gov. Glenn Youngkin. The court provided no rationale for its action, which is typical in emergency appeals.
Non-citizens should not be allowed to vote. Period. Why is the AP not asking why the Liberal justices voted to allow non-citizens to vote in federal elections?
The justices acted on Virginia’s appeal after a federal judge found that the state illegally purged more than 1,600 voter registrations in the past two months. A federal appeals court had previously allowed the judge’s order to remain in effect.
Such voting is rare in American elections, but the specter of immigrants voting illegally has been a main part of the political messaging this year from former President Donald Trump and other Republicans.
1,600 is no small number, and can influence races, especially down ballot ones. And, this is 1,600 they know about
The National Voter Registration Act requires a 90-day “quiet period” ahead of elections for the maintenance of voter rolls so that legitimate voters are not removed from the rolls by bureaucratic errors or last-minute mistakes that cannot be quickly corrected.
Non-citizens are not legitimate voters. Can mistakes be made? Sure. Just like mistakes were made to allow the non-citizens onto the voting rolls.
That’s not the point. These registrations are the poisoned fruit of the motor-voter law. The point of that law was not to make voting easier, but to create lots of blank ballots for people who were very likely to never show up on election day. Those blank ballots could then be filled out by election workers at the end of the day. A few here and there. Once in the “counted” pile, they are indistinguishable from legitimate ballots. Illegal aliens, dead people, people who moved away, people who never vote but registered because it was easy at the DMV, they all provide the same result: Blank ballots. Blank ballots are the raw materials of election fraud and the motor voter act was created to make it institutionalized.
Legally, I believe the SCOTUS errored in this decision. Without striking down the 90 day limit or supporting it, or providing any other rationale for their actions, they failed to create precedent and guaranteed they would see this issue again. The lower courts also erred and should not have bothered to hear the case in the first place since no one was harmed by this and same day registration is a thing in Virginia so the remedy is available to anyone who was kicked off the rolls. Coupled with 30 days of early voting and mail in voting and absentee voting, it is no longer possible to meaningfully deny the vote to any legitimate voter in Virginia. At most, they are inconvenienced and have to take an extra 5 min to vote.
de minimis non curat lex used to be a thing. Now all the courts have time for is trivial pursuit.
Good! Make Voting Fair Again
“California man arrested for showing ID to vote..”
Sounds about right…BB