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A Growing List of Violations — By ‘ELECT’

December 13, 2024

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…

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A Salute to All Election Workers

November 28, 2024

From EPEC Team Newsletter: Virginia’s 2024 Presidential Election — and trust in the results — would not be possible without thousands of election volunteers who augment the Department of Elections’…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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

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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…

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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

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