Virginia must restore voter eligibility to more than 1,600 after US judge ruling

Governor's order on non-citizen voting led to many residents wrongly deemed ineligible due to errors

Virginia must restore more than 1,600 people to the voter rolls after a federal judge ruled on Friday that the state had illegally removed them.

The US district judge Patricia Giles granted an injunction request brought against Virginia election officials by the justice department, which claimed the voter registrations were wrongly canceled during a 90-day quiet period ahead of the November election that restricts states from making large-scale changes to their voter rolls.