The voters who were "canceled in error" were felons who'd violated probation but were misclassified as having committed new felonies, the Richmond Times-Dispatch first reported.Virginia voters will go to the polls on Nov. 7 to determine whether Youngkin will succeed in his push for Republicans to win control of both chambers of the state's legislature.
"We have no way to know if that 3,400 is actually correct," Weneta said. "When they acknowledged the mistake, they said it was only 270 people. Well three weeks later, they say it's more than 10 times that number."Virginia is the only state where a person convicted of any felony automatically loses the right to vote. After he was elected, Youngkin implemented a policy requiring each person with a felony to file an application to have their voting rights restored.
And Virginia Democrats in Congress have called on the Justice Department to investigate how thousands of residents lost their voting rights after being wrongly accused of violating probation.Critics of Youngkin still have questions about how the voter purge happened and what they call a lack of communication from the governor's office.
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