The Justice Department filed a lawsuit Friday against Virginia over a statewide program designed to purge voters from its rolls ahead of the 2024 election if DMV records do not show U.S. citizenship.

The department said it filed the lawsuit based on a federal law that prohibits the purging of voter rolls within the 90-day period before an election.

“As required by the National Voter Registration Act, officials across the country should heed the law’s crystal clear and unambiguous limitations on systematic list-keeping efforts that occur within 90 days of an election,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division .

The system, put in place by order of Gov. Glenn Youngkin, has already been denounced by several immigration rights groups.

The Justice Department recently filed a similar lawsuit against the state of Alabama over similar voter roll purges.

The Justice Department is seeking an injunction that would “restore the affected electors’ ability to vote freely on Election Day,” the department said in a statement.

In a statement on the governor’s website, Youngkin called the lawsuit a “politically motivated action” and promised not to “stand idly by.”