Election Guides

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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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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