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A Virginia voter roll purge sparks renewed rhetoric over 'non-citizens' casting ballots

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Gov. Glenn Youngkin said earlier this month he had issued an executive order removing 6,303 noncitizens who had “accidentally or maliciously attempted to register” to vote.

The governor’s Aug. 7 order didn’t state whether any of the people removed from the voter rolls over the past 18 months were noncitizens.

Groups say such rhetoric contributes to the erosion of confidence in the electoral process.

Virginia uses Department of Homeland Security system, SAVE , to verify voter rolls.

SAVE is designed for checking agency records on immigrants when they’re applying for certain benefits.

But user and data errors in the system have led to people being inaccurately flagged on voter rolls, an expert says.

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