If you didn’t know this, voting when you’re not legally allowed to vote is a federal crime, writes Armstrong Williams.

The Justice Department sued both Virginia and Alabama in the fall, accusing them of violating a ban on purging voters within 90 days of an election.

In response, Youngkin said he was enforcing a 2006 law signed by then-Governor Tim Kaine and called the lawsuit unprecedented and a politically motivated action to interfere with Virginia's elections.

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Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed an executive order on Aug. 7, 2024, that included a provision asking the state to remove voters who could not prove their citizenship from voting rolls. The U.S. Department of Justice has sued the commonwealth of Virginia over the executive order.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin denounced the Justice Department for the decision and said the state would act to “defend these commonsense steps."

"Virginians - and Americans - will see this for exactly what it is: a desperate attempt to attack the legitimacy of the elections in the Commonwealth, the very crucible of American Democracy," Gov. Glenn Youngkin said.

The U.S. Department of Justice sued the commonwealth of Virginia in October 2024 for attempting to remove noncitizens from voter rolls. Rating: What's True: Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed an executive order on Aug.