LWV of the Fairfax Area

The commonwealth of Virginia recently agreed to stop its illegal voter purge program that disproportionately impacted naturalized citizens on the eve of federal elections. 

The League of Women Voters, partners, and individuals filed a class action lawsuit today challenging the Trump-Vance administration’s unlawful creation of massive government databases consolidating sensitive and legally protected personal information on millions of people in America to unlawfully open investigations and purge voter rolls. 

In a major win for voting rights, District Court Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles largely denied the defendants’ motion to dismiss in Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights (VACIR) v. Beals.

A significant number of anti-voter lawsuits were filed that sought to disrupt election administration and purge eligible voters from the rolls around the 2024 federal election. The League of Women Voters of the United States (“LWVUS”) monitored these eleventh-hour anti-voter lawsuits, including the substantial amount of voter purge lawsuits. 

The Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights (VACIR), the League of Women Voters of Virginia (LWVVA), and African Communities Together (ACT) are disappointed and alarmed the Supreme Court of the United States has allowed Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin to wrongfully remove qualified voters from the voting rolls less than one week before a federal election.

Today, the VACIR, LWVVA and ACT successfully defended naturalized Americans who were unfairly targeted in Virginia’s illegal and last-minute purge program.