On Friday morning, a federal judge ruled in favor of plaintiffs challenging a Virginia program that has removed over 1,600 people from voter rolls since August, following an executive order by Gov. Glenn Youngkin.

A federal judge on Thursday appeared poised to rule against Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin‘s (R-VA) initiative to purge ineligible voters from state voter rolls, hinting that she may restore 1,600 voters that were removed over the past three months.

A federal judge has shut down a controversial voter purge program from Governor Glenn Youngkin. Back in August, the governor signed an executive order calling for daily checks of Virginia Department of Motor Vehicle data – a move meant to remove non-citizens from the state’s voter rolls.

U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against Virginia for removing voters from rolls within 90 days of this year’s elections. Virginia’s League of Women Voters and the Virginia Coalition for Immigrants Rights have filed a similar suit.

Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s executive order to remove more than 6,000 Virginians from the voter rolls has come under intense national scrutiny after the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit challenging its legality.

Less than two weeks from the general election, Virginia voters were confused Wednesday morning when the state’s voter registration portal went offline for several hours. The outage, which prevented voters from confirming their registration status,

The days and weeks before an election are supposed to be quiet time, when state election officials are prohibited from purging the voter rolls. That's why some voting advocates are concerned about an executive order from Governor Glenn Youngkin that calls for daily purges of people flagged by the Department of Motor Vehicles as potentially non-citizens.

Governor Youngkin argues his orders remove voters who identify as non-citizens. ABC 13 asked an attorney with the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Ryan Snow what res