FALLS CHURCH, Va. — Phoebe Taylor was all ready to vote in Tuesday’s election. She even knew her precinct number in the city of Richmond off the top of her head.
So it came as a shock when a reporter informed the naturalized U.S. citizen, originally from Great Britain, that she’d been purged from Virginia’s rolls, along with about 1,600 others in the last two months, in an attempt prevent noncitizens from casting ballots.
“It’s irritating to me,” said Taylor, 26. “I wouldn’t even have known.”…