Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) criticized a Department of Justice (DOJ) suit against his state over the purging of voter rolls Sunday. “To be clear, this is not a purge,” Youngkin said on “Fox News Sunday” to anchor Shannon Bream about voter roll removals.

The DOJ sued Virginia for violating the federal prohibition on systematic efforts to remove voters within 90 days of an election after Youngkin signed an executive order requiring the commissioner of the Department of Elections to certify that the department was conducting “daily updates to the voter list” to purge the voter rolls of people who are unable to verify that they are citizens to the state Department of Motor Vehicles.