MSNBC Slams ‘Voter Purge’ in Va. That Scrubbed Some 38,000 Registered in Other States
Just behind the “war on women” and charges of racism, MSNBC’s third favorite bogeyman is the specter of “voter suppression.” The network was obsessed with that meme in 2012 and will doubtless pound the pulpit on it in the congressional midterms, but it’s been relatively quiet about it in 2013. That changed today when MSNBC Live anchor Thomas Roberts brought on Kathy Culliton-Gonzalez of The Advancement Project to forward the complaints of Virginia Democrats against a state voter registry clean-up that has removed about 38,000 from the state’s rolls. Liberal Democrats in the Old Dominion took the state to court for daring to kick off the voter registry folks who had registered to vote in other states after having registered in Virginia. Federal judge Claude Hilton turned down their request to reverse the move.
True to form, Roberts described the effort as a “purge,” even though the roughly 38,000 scrubbed from state rolls accounts for less than 0.8 percent of the state’s “active voter registrations.” What’s more, as the Associated Press reported, Judge Hilton ruled that no voter was suffering “irreparable harm” from the clean-up because “anybody wrongly stricken can cast a provisional ballot” on election day.
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