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Voting Rights Advocates Hail Virginia’s Return to Multistate Voter Roll System
Governor Spanberger's executive order prevents voter purges within 90 days of federal elections and restores Virginia's membership in the Electronic Registration Information Center to improve voter roll accuracy.
- Governor Abigail Spanberger signed an executive order earlier this week reversing the 2023 decision by former Governor Glenn Youngkin to withdraw Virginia from the Electronic Registration Information Center , a nonpartisan organization sharing voter registration data among 26 member states.
- Youngkin had previously directed officials to remove voters based on Department of Motor Vehicles data, an effort that mistakenly dropped thousands of U.S. citizens from the rolls, whereas rejoining ERIC provides administrators access to accurate information for routine list maintenance.
- To comply with the federal "Quiet Period Provision," Spanberger's order limits voter roll removals to 90 days before federal elections, a move policy director Chris Kaiser of the Virginia ACLU said restores "critical guardrails against wrongful disenfranchisement."
- Joan Porte, president of the League of Women Voters of Virginia, supported the return to ERIC, noting it makes it easier to verify voter addresses and calling the previous withdrawal part of a "ridiculous conspiracy theory" about voter fraud.
- State Senator Schuyler T. VanValkenburg's SB 57, which requires Virginia's ERIC membership, is heading to the governor's desk; Spanberger has until April 13 to act on the bill, which would codify the executive order's requirements into state law.
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Voting rights advocates hail Virginia’s return to multistate voter roll system
Prominent voting rights advocates are applauding a new executive order returning Virginia to a multistate voter roll program and limiting when voters can be removed from the rolls before elections.
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Spanberger orders no late purge of voter rolls
Former Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s purging of voting rolls in the weeks before the 2024 presidential election would be barred under a new executive order from Gov. Abigail Spanberger.
·Norfolk, United States
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