Ladies and gentlemen, the Commonwealth of Virginia identified over six thousand people on its voter rolls who literally told the state they weren't American citizens, and then the state agreed to keep them registered anyway. You can't make this stuff up, but you don't have to, because as USA Journal reported, that's exactly what happened under Democrat Governor Abigail Spanberger.
So here's how this beautiful system works. People go to the DMV to get a driver's license, and on the application they voluntarily check a box indicating whether or not they're U.S. citizens. The DMV then cross references that information with voter registration lists and flags the ones who said, "Hey, I'm not a citizen." The state contacts those individuals and asks them to cancel their registration. Simple, functional, and apparently too effective for some people's comfort.
This process identified 6,531 confirmed non-citizen registrations. Not questionable ones. Not "maybe they made a typo" ones. People who personally declared they aren't citizens of this country. And what did Virginia do with this goldmine of election integrity data? Spanberger's administration entered into a legal settlement with left-wing activist organizations agreeing to hit the pause button on removing these registrations for 90 days before federal elections. That's right, the state basically said, "We know who shouldn't be voting, but let's just chill on that until after everyone's done voting."
The arrangement only came to light because Judicial Watch, led by president Tom Fitton, submitted a data request to the Virginia Department of Elections and uncovered the whole deal. Fitton posted the findings publicly on July 31, 2026, and wouldn't you know it, Virginia suddenly found the motivation to cancel those 6,531 registrations. Funny how public embarrassment works faster than legal obligations.
Without Judicial Watch shining a spotlight on this arrangement, those acknowledged non-citizens would have stayed on the rolls right through Election Day. That wasn't a glitch or an oversight. That was the plan.
The 6,531 figure is also almost certainly just the tip of the iceberg. Those are only the people who were honest on their DMV paperwork. Anyone who didn't disclose their non-citizen status wouldn't show up in this cross-referencing system at all, and figuring out the real number would require federal data matching that Virginia's Democratic leadership is actively fighting against.
Meanwhile, Virginia operates as a sanctuary state, a policy Spanberger has openly supported. So the state simultaneously shields people from federal immigration enforcement while also agreeing to pause the removal of non-citizens from voter rolls before elections. It's almost like these policies are connected or something.
This whole fiasco is precisely the kind of situation that Trump's executive order on mail ballot verification and the SAVE America Act were designed to address. Virginia got caught because an outside watchdog forced the issue. The question is how many other states have similar arrangements that nobody's uncovered yet.
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