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Christmas Tidings of Faith in Elections

From EPEC Team Newsletter: Merry Christmas from EPEC Team — to our growing list of subscribers, generous supporters, and trusted advisors! And most of all, Merry Christmas to all the volunteers we are proud to join in driving election security and trusted results across Virginia and the nation. As we…...

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A Growing List of Violations — By ‘ELECT’

By Chris Rohland and Erin Marie Joyce Virginia’s Department of Elections (‘ELECT’) is the overseer of elections across the Commonwealth. But when the Dept. of Elections itself is flouting transparency and federal voter-list management laws, who is overseeing ELECT? Amid a string of policy decisions that have all but invited…...

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A Salute to All Election Workers

From EPEC Team Newsletter: Virginia’s 2024 Presidential Election — and trust in the results — would not be possible without thousands of election volunteers who augment the Department of Elections’ work managing the 45-day election marathon. EPEC Team thanks all of them — and the volunteers who make EPEC Team…...

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Counting to Close Out VA 2024 Election

From EPEC Team Newsletter: Virginia’s 2024 General Election tallies for President, U.S. Senate, and its 11 Congressional Districts were called soon after Election Day — but electoral boards are still plowing through a record number of provisional ballots in the official count. The deadline for localities to report out their…...

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VA Election Night: Data Reliability Issues

By Jon Lareau, EPEC Team volunteer Chief Technology Officer Our team at EPEC monitored the Election Night Reporting (ENR) data feed published by the Virginia Department of Elections (ELECT) during the 2024 General election. While we have not finished collecting or examining the election results, we have observed a few…...

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Nail Biter in VA: Fast Results, SDR Voters

From EPEC Team Newsletter: The nation elected Republican President Donald J. Trump last night in a landslide victory that swept battleground states — amid a presidential tally nail-biter in Virginia before Democrat Vice President Kamala Harris pulled out a 5-point win. By this afternoon, she had conceded the race to…...

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SCOTUS Stay a ‘Win for Election Fairness’

Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin called the U.S. Supreme Court’s stay of a lower federal court ruling that ordered the Commonwealth to return noncitizens to the voter rolls a “win for common sense and election fairness.” The Supreme Court order, issued earlier today, says the Oct. 25th order of the United…...

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