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Using Dept. of Elections’ voter-registration tallies as of Nov. 1st (shown in orange below), EPEC Team has charted the registration numbers (shown in blue) compared to Nov. 13th as SDR and other provisional tallies are checked in the state voter registration database (VERIS).

Counting to Close Out VA 2024 Election

November 14, 2024

From EPEC Team Newsletter: Virginia’s 2024 General Election tallies for President, U.S. Senate, and its 11 Congressional Districts were called soon after Election Day — but electoral boards are still…

EPEC Team observed voter-data feeds during Virginia's Nov. 5th General Election. This screenshot shows a a distinct jump, and then immediate reversion in Bland County, one of 11 localities EPEC tracked on election night.

VA Election Night: Data Reliability Issues

November 9, 2024

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…

Line Chart of Election Night Returns in Virginia 2024 Presidential Election.

Nail Biter in VA: Fast Results, SDR Voters

November 6, 2024

From EPEC Team Newsletter: The nation elected Republican President Donald J. Trump last night in a landslide victory that swept battleground states — amid a presidential tally nail-biter in Virginia…

Bar chart shows growth of 2024 General Election provisional ballots, likely including Same Day Registration, that total over 18,000 during early voting in Virginia, a record.

VA Early Voting: Record Provisional Ballots

November 3, 2024

Screenshot of Supreme Court order that stays lower court ruling ordering VA to add noncitizens back on voter rolls.

SCOTUS Stay a ‘Win for Election Fairness’

October 30, 2024

Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin called the U.S. Supreme Court’s stay of a lower federal court ruling that ordered the Commonwealth to return noncitizens to the voter rolls a “win for…

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VA Briefs SCOTUS Re: Noncitizens on Voter Rolls

October 29, 2024

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VA Files SCOTUS Appeal Over Last-Minute Order to Put Noncitizens Back on Voter Rolls

October 28, 2024

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…

Graphic shows latest "countable" tallies in all of VA's Congressional Districts, broken out by voter "propensity."

Low Propensity Voters Are Showing up in VA Early Voting

October 21, 2024

Image shows the distribution of non-citizen voters in the cumulative MUS file history. The blue trace represent the total identified and CANCELED non-citizen registrations, and the yellow trace represents the number of those records that also had corresponding records in the accumulated voter history data.

Thousands More Noncitizens Taken Off VA Voter Rolls

October 18, 2024

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Challenge to ELECT Over ‘Noncitizen’ Voter IDs

October 15, 2024

The nonprofit law firm Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections (“RITE”) has sent a letter to Virginia’s Commissioner of Elections calling for changes to Prince William County’s election training manual…

VA General Election DAL Stats

Differential Invalidation in VA 2024 General Election Data – Presidential Race November 19, 2024
Using data published by the VA Department of Elections (“ELECT”), we plotted the Ballot Invalidation Rate (BIR) vs. the % of vote share for the winner in order to attempt to determine if “Differential Invalidation” of ballots occurred in the 2024 VA General Election. The plotted data appears to show differential invalidation and suggests that […]
Jonathan Lareau
2024 VA Election Night Reporting over Time – President and Vice-President November 14, 2024
EPEC monitored and archived the election night reporting (“ENR”) files published by the VA Department of Elections (“ELECT”) for the 2024 General Election, using the “media export” link at the bottom of the page to periodically download a JSON file with the data. On this page you will find the plots of the Locality reported […]
Jonathan Lareau
2024 VA Election Night Reporting over Time – United States Senate November 14, 2024
EPEC monitored and archived the election night reporting (“ENR”) files published by the VA Department of Elections (“ELECT”) for the 2024 General Election, using the “media export” link at the bottom of the page to periodically download a JSON file with the data. On this page you will find the plots of the Locality reported […]
Jonathan Lareau
Observed data reliability issues with VA 2024 election night reporting data November 9, 2024
Our team at EPEC monitored the Election Night Reporting (ENR) data feed published by the VA 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 issues already that are presented below. (Note there is a TON more data analysis […]
Jonathan Lareau
Non-citizen registrations with previous voting history in VA election data – update Nov 2024 November 2, 2024
We have updated our previous analysis (from March, July, Sept and Oct) 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 3,761 unique registrations that were self-identified as “Declared Non-Citizen” and removed by ELECT from the voter […]
Jonathan Lareau