From EPEC Team newsletter: Bills are a response to Virginia’s Same Day Registration chaos in 2024. EPEC’s roundup looks at election bills the governor signed, and ones that met the veto pen. Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed two bills this week that provide Virginia citizens (especially college students) more time to…...
‘ELECT’ to Return DOB Data to Compliance
From EPEC Team Newsletter: In a win for transparency in elections and voter-roll accuracy, Virginia’s Dept. of Elections (‘ELECT’) has apparently agreed to return full month and birth dates to voter-registration lists as required under federal statute. The development comes after ELECT abruptly began withholding full date-of-birth data from client-service…...
DOJ Withdraws Voter-List Maintenance Case Against VA
The Trump administration’s Department of Justice filed a motion this week to withdraw from a lawsuit the Biden DOJ had filed against Virginia to stop it from conducting voter-list maintenance under the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA). (See the brief motion here.) Courthouse News reported that U.S. District Court Judge…...
Same Day Registration Fixes on VA Docket
From EPEC Team Newsletter: Virginia’s General Assembly is considering remedies to Same Day Registration (SDR) chaos from the 2024 presidential election that allowed ineligible ballots to count. At least two bills in circulation appear to be addressing the problem by providing more time for regular registration before Election Day.…...
VA ’24 Election Snowed by SDR Chaos
From EPEC Team Newsletter: Virginia’s experiment with its Same Day Registration statute, which went into effect in 2022, met its first major stress test during the 2024 Presidential Election. Based on logs available so far, this much of a partial verdict is in: SDR voters overwhelmed many precincts during early…...
Christmas Tidings of Faith in Elections
From EPEC Team Newsletter: Merry Christmas from EPEC Team — to our growing list of subscribers, generous supporters, and trusted advisors! And most of all, Merry Christmas to all the volunteers we are proud to join in driving election security and trusted results across Virginia and the nation. As we…...
