From EPEC Team Newsletter: Virginia does not appear among the latest lawsuits by DOJ’s Civil Rights division against states to compel voter-roll maintenance records. Did VA finally respond to the DOJ’s letter? The Department of Justice has filed six new lawsuits against blue states over their refusal to comply…...
Democrats Sweep VA on Mail-in Ballot Surge
Virginia’s 2025 Election came to a close early Tuesday night with a Democrat sweep that is shaping up to be the year that absentee mail-in ballots swamped Republican balloting. Democrats took all the top races and flipped 13 House of Delegate seats to increase their majority and currently hold a…...
Redistricting Fight Lands in VA’s Early Voting
From EPEC Team News Smack dab in the center of Virginia’s heated 2025 election campaigns and early voting, Democrat leaders are convening lawmakers in Richmond Monday in what is expected to be a Congressional redistricting vote — one week before the Nov. 4th General Election. “In a letter to legislators,…...
VA Election Week 3 Early Vote: In-Person Surges
From EPEC Team News & Analysis newsletter: We are at the halfway mark of Virginia’s 45-day early voting stretch ahead of Election Day (Nov. 4th) with more than 500,000 ballots in countable status, and more than 800,000 ballots in various stages of approval for in-person and absentee by-mail. That…...
Violence, Raging Texts Upend VA Election
A wildfire of scandal blazed into Virginia’s 2025 election Friday after text messages sent by Democrat Attorney General candidate Jay Jones came to light in which he fantasized about assassinating a Republican lawmaker — and wished death on his children over their policy differences. The texts from 2022, first…...
VA General Election DAL Stats
- 2025 VA November General Election DAL File Metrics September 20, 2025Below you will find the current summary data and graphics from the 2024 VA November General Election Daily Absentee List files. We pull the DAL file everyday and track the count of each specific ballot category in each daily file. Note: Page may take a moment to load the graphics objects. Linear Scale Plot: Place […]Jonathan Lareau
- Potential Duplicate Registrations in VA Voter List – August 2025 August 10, 2025I previously had put together analysis that utilized the full name and date of birth information from the Virginia Registered Voter List (“RVL”) in order to look for duplicate registrations, either exact matches or by using a string distance measure (the Levenshtein distance) to accommodate for typos, abbreviations, and mis-spellings. Just prior to the start […]Jonathan Lareau
- Non-citizen registrations with previous voting history in VA election data – update August 2025 August 8, 2025We have updated our previous analysis (see March 2024, July 2024, Sept 2024, Oct 2024, Nov 2024, Dec 2024 and March 2025 posts) with the latest information from the VA Department of Elections data. Abstract: Using the data provided by the VA Department of Elections (ELECT), we have identified at least 6,086 unique registrations that were self-identified as “Declared Non-Citizen” and removed […]Jonathan Lareau
- Validating Ed Solomon’s Observations on CO 2020 data May 27, 2025Recently I was made aware of the work Ed Solomon had been doing with data from the 2020 Colorado Cast Vote Records (CVRs), and I’ve taken some time to replicate and validate some of his data observations. I don’t always agree with Ed, but I wanted to take some time and verify the facts of […]Jonathan Lareau
- 2025 VA June Republican Primary Election DAL File Metrics May 4, 2025Below you will find the current summary data and graphics from the 2025 VA June Republican Primary Election Daily Absentee List files. We pull the DAL file everyday and track the count of each specific ballot category in each daily file. Note: Page may take a moment to load the graphics objects. Linear Scale Plot: […]Jonathan Lareau