Richmond Mayor Levar M. Stoney doesn’t believe that a“coding error” is the reason 3,400 voters were removed from Virginia’s voter rolls, as stated by Gov. Glenn A. Youngkin last week.

Taking to social media to voice his concerns, themayor said, “Today I joined @nolefturnsinc, @thedrmikejones, @lwv_va, and other leaders across the Commonwealth to demand a DOJ investigation into the Youngkin Administration’s stunt purging 3,400 eligible Virginians off the voter rolls.

“I do not accept that this was a simple ‘coding error,’” he added. “This is weaponized incompetence, and a federal investigation is necessary.”

Gov. Youngkin’s administration last week said the 3,400 voters were improperly removed from the state’s rolls due to probation violations — a greater number than previously acknowledged — but that local registrars have reinstated the vast majority of those individuals.

The governor’s administration first disclosed the problem in early October following reporting from VPM News about concerns raised by civil rights advocates over improper voter removals. The error, which the administration has blamed on a data-sharing issue that misclassified probation violations as new felonies, has sparked criticism from Democrats, including a call from the state’s Democratic congressional delegation for a Department of Justice investigation.

The full scope of the problem had been unclear until the Department of Elections announcement last Friday — less than two weeks before Election Day.

A department spokeswoman, Andrea Gaines, acknowledged in mid-October that at least 275 misclassified voters had been identified, but she had since declined to answer questions about the latest available figures. At the same time, inquiries made to local registrars’ offices by The Associated Press and other news outlets made clear the total surpassed 275, according to the Associated Press.

In Richmond, which has a population of 230,000 — about 200 affected voters have been reinstated, according to a recent Associated Press interview with Keith Balmer, the city’s general registrar.

Eric Olsen, the director of elections and general registrar for Prince William County, said last week by email that 87 voters had been reinstated. The number had risen to 107, he said in an update Friday.

The Department of Elections said Friday that all affected voters have been notified by mail.

“As of today, all but approximately 100 of these records have been processed by general registrars. ELECT staff continues to check in with localities to ensure each record is reinstated,” the department said in a news release.