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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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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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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 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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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…...

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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…...

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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…...

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When EPEC Met ELECT

The EPECTeam Newsletter has launched! You can sign up here to subscribe to the free weekly update on our work as a charitable nonprofit promoting voter participation and education about election systems and technology, A few snippets from our recent edition: 1. Notes from a Fruitful Meeting w/ Commissioner Beals…...

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