Just days before election day, the US Supreme Court has ruled that the state of

Virginia will be able to continue to purge people from the state's voter rolls.

The state has argued it's part of an effort to remove non-citizens from the rules, but voting

rights advocates have found several US citizens were also removed from the roles.

And PR's Jude Joffy Block has spoken with some of those voiders.

She joins me now.

Jude, welcome to the news hour.

Thanks for joining us.

Oh, thanks for having me.

So the state of Virginia has removed some 1,600 people

from its voter rolls since August. Why was it doing that purging in the first place?

So all states have an obligation to make sure that the voters on their rolls are eligible to vote and

What's really under debate here

is how Virginia went about doing that

and when Virginia did that.

So Virginia has this program underway

to identify non-citizens on the rules, but the argument being made is that they aren't

narrowly tailoring it enough to only target non-citizens, and that it's happening too close to the election.

So under federal law, there's a rule under the National Voter Registration Act

that states have to stop this kind of voter maintenance 90 days before an election, but Virginia

says that doesn't apply here because they're targeting non-citizens specifically, but we've seen that this program has ensnared U.S. citizens.

So tell me about that.

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