Washington, D.C. – Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections (“RITE”), a non-profit organization that supports litigation to protect election security and integrity, applauded today’s ruling from the United States Supreme Court declaring that federal law poses no obstacle to the Commonwealth of Virginia removing noncitizens from its voter rolls. RITE filed an amicus, or “friend of the court,” brief in support of Virginia’s right to keep its voter rolls free of noncitizens.
Under the leadership of Governor Glenn Youngkin, the Commonwealth of Virginia has worked diligently to remove noncitizens from its voter rolls. The Biden-Harris Department of Justice, along with radical left activist groups, sued Virginia officials to stop these efforts. As RITE argued in its brief filed with the Supreme Court, these lawsuits were based on a gross misreading of federal law and, had they succeeded, would have inflicted grave harm on the people of Virginia by enabling noncitizens to cast ballots in their elections, including the current election for President of the United States. Thankfully, the Supreme Court has put a halt to this misadventure.
“The people of Virginia have every right to insist that the number of non-citizens voting in their elections is zero,” said Derek Lyons, President of RITE. “The federal government’s alliance with far-left activists to compel Virginia to expose its elections to non-citizen participation was an outrageous abuse of authority. Fortunately, the Supreme Court has put a halt to that effort, delivering today a victory for commonsense, public confidence, and election integrity.
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