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…...
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…...
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.…...
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…...
‘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…...
Youngkin’s Election EO Makes a Splash
From the EPEC Team Newsletter: Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin’s Executive Order about election security – including removing noncitizens from voter rolls – made a splash this week with election watchers around the nation. Executive Order 35 recounts the administration’s modernization of election systems it has undertaken in the past few…...
Is VA’s ELECT Ignoring Voter-Roll Errors?
From the EPEC Team Newsletter: Yes, Virginia, we have noncitizens on voter rolls. And yes, noncitizens were voting for years before they removed themselves from Virginia’s voter rolls, according to Dept. of Election data and EPEC Team analysis. That’s an ongoing problem. But that’s not all. Localities and counties still…...
Is VA Ready for the 2024 General Election?
Analysis by Rick Naigle, Senior Analyst, EPEC Voter News: EPEC Team data analysts reviewed voting data from the June 18th Primary election and found serious discrepancies. There is still time to fix the problems before November. Virginia’s 2020 election experience during the COVID-driven shift to mail-in ballots was marred by…...
Absentee Ballot Controversy in VA’s CD-5 Primary
From EPEC Team Newsletter: Expect a Recount and More in VA’s Republican CD 5 Primary, Local Races U.S. Senate Race is set, Other Congressional Races Why Gov. Youngkin’s EO on Voter Roll Improvements Matters 1. Accusations Flying, Recount Expected in VA 5 Republican Congressional Primary It’s a nail-biter of a…...
VA General Election DAL Stats
- Approved Permanent Absentee List Voters With No Corresponding Registration Record in Virginia March 12, 2026Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF): There are at least 6,096 statewide records that are currently approved to receive absentee ballots, on a permanent basis, that DO NOT HAVE CORRESPONDING RECORDS EXISTING in the Registered Voter List. Derivation: As we’re now in the early voting period for the VA April 21 2026 Special Election regarding the […]Jonathan Lareau
- 2026 VA April 21 Special Election DAL File Metrics March 7, 2026Below you will find the current summary data and graphics from the 2026 VA April 21 Special Election Daily Absentee List files. We pull the DAL file everyday and track the count of each specific ballot category in each daily file. It should be noted that EPEC strongly encourages voters to make their voices heard […]Jonathan Lareau
- Non-citizen registrations with previous voting history in VA election data – update Jan 2026 January 21, 2026We have updated our previous analysis (see March 2024, July 2024, Sept 2024, Oct 2024, Nov 2024, Dec 2024, March 2025 and August 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 7,343 unique registrations that were self-identified as “Declared Non-Citizen” […]Jonathan Lareau
- 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