In a fast-moving case that upended Virginia’s ongoing early voting period, Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares filed an emergency appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court On Oct. 28 after the Fourth Circuit sided with the Dept. of Justice and leftwing progressive groups and ordered the Dept. of Elections to put…...
DOJ Meets Blowback over Voter-List Suit
From EPEC Team Substack: DOJ Joins the Fray in Attempt to Block Voter-List Maintenance After leftwing progressive groups filed suit against Virginia’s Department of Elections in a bid to stop routine voter-list maintenance required by federal law, the Dept. of Justice followed the same week with a nearly-exact complaint. After…...
RITE Alerts VA on Election Law Violation
Electoral Process Education Corporation (EPEC) News Release: EPEC Team reported in August it would keep readers posted on next steps after Virginia’s Department of Elections (‘ELECT’) suddenly began withholding full date of birth data from client-service voter data records just three weeks before the start of the 2024 election. Today,…...
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…...
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…...
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…...