Virginia Asks US Supreme Court to Allow Purge of Voter Rolls (1)

Virginia asked the US Supreme Court to revive the state’s purge of voter rolls in the final days of the presidential contest after lower courts blocked it.

The application filed on Monday pulls the justices into the pre-election legal fray in the fast-moving case. A federal judge late last week held that the program violated a 90-day “quiet period” under federal law, handing a win to the Justice Department and private advocacy groups that had sued over the program ahead of Election Day on Nov. 5.

Over the weekend, the state asked a federal appeals court to intervene but a ...