Removed From Rolls, Still Voting

From EPEC Team Newsletter: EPEC Team has been tracking what appears to be about 57 anomalies in the early voting stats in the Daily Absentee List (DAL) that show ineligible individuals voting. The Dept. of Elections (ELECT) removed these individuals as part of its maintenance process. We cross-checked ELECT’s removals…...

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VA Early Voting: We See Dead People

From EPEC Team Newsletter: EPEC Team’s Senior Analyst Rick Naigle’s summary of Early Voting as of Oct 2, 2024: We are at roughly 777,000 voters who have cast ballots some two weeks into the six-plus weeks of voting.  In off-year elections we saw about 33% of all early voting ballots…...

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Voting Noncitizens Appeared to Prefer D Ballots in VA

By Jon Lareau, volunteer CTO, EPEC Reprinted from DigitalPollWatchers.org We at EPEC have had a lot of interest in the work we’ve done following the numbers of non-citizen registrant removals by the VA department of election (ELECT). I recently got asked a follow-up question as to how those numbers broke…...

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Turnout Up Slightly in VA Early Voting

From EPEC Team Voter Newsletter: Friday, Sept. 27, 2024 By EPEC Team One week into Virginia’s seven-week stretch of early voting shows just under 4% of ballots in countable state, out of about 6 million registered voters. That’s up a bit. About 7% of the electorate should be receiving or…...

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Fairfax EB Investigating Noncitizens with Voting History in Virginia

By Erin Marie Joyce, EPEC Voter News Progressive-aligned media outlets often claim (without citation) that non-citizens who vote illegally “almost never happens.” Virginia’s own Dept. of Elections records say otherwise. Electoral boards are taking action to investigate. The largest county’s electoral board is the latest. It is now sending to…...

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Fairfax EB Refers Noncitizens on Voter Rolls to AG

From EPEC Voter Newsletter: Three items to cover: —Early Voting Starts Friday, Sept. 20 in Virginia —Fairfax County Election Board Takes Action on Noncitizens Voting —The New DemTech Pollbook Provider? Virginia’s 45-Day Voting Stretch Begins Early voting started today (Sept. 20) in for Virginia’s 2024 Presidential Election, concluding on Nov.…...

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VA Pollbook Changes Appear to Violate Election Certification

Exclusive: New e-mail releases show that election officials were aware of the risks back in April about DemTech’s murky status as a provider of pollbook software for voting. A major vendor of electronic poll book software across Virginia appears to have violated state certification standards after it abruptly ended support…...

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‘ELECT’ Removes Key Voter Data in Last-Minute Switch

From EPEC Team Voter News: Three weeks before the start of early voting in Virginia’s 2024 presidential election, the Department of Elections has thrown voter-participation groups into a scramble by suddenly removing full date of birth in official registered voter lists. The reasoning cited a Virginia statute that says voter-data…...

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