With two weeks to go in the 45-day early voting stretch before Virginia’s 2025 General Election (Nov. 4th), we see the remarkable voting turnout during early voting going strong, now estimated at 11%. The tally is up by 2-1 over the same time in 2021 when Virginia held a gubernatorial…...
VA Election Week 3 Early Vote: In-Person Surges
From EPEC Team News & Analysis newsletter: We are at the halfway mark of Virginia’s 45-day early voting stretch ahead of Election Day (Nov. 4th) with more than 500,000 ballots in countable status, and more than 800,000 ballots in various stages of approval for in-person and absentee by-mail. That…...
Violence, Raging Texts Upend VA Election
A wildfire of scandal blazed into Virginia’s 2025 election Friday after text messages sent by Democrat Attorney General candidate Jay Jones came to light in which he fantasized about assassinating a Republican lawmaker — and wished death on his children over their policy differences. The texts from 2022, first…...
Hart Leaps Ahead on First-in-The-Nation Election Security
From EPEC Team Voter Data Newsletter: Election systems vendor Hart InterCivic has jumped ahead with security best practices in the United States now that it is certified to the updated Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (VVSG) 2.0 standard via the Election Assistance Commission. It’s been a decade to get there —…...
Virginia’s Move to Slash Voter-List Prices Was Long Overdue
From EPEC Team Newsletter: The National Voter Registration Act mandates that voting records be available to the public or qualified groups at a “reasonable” cost. Federal court rulings in Illinois, Maryland, and Virginia from 2012 (Project Vote/Voting for America, Inc. v. Long) have affirmed the intent of section 8 of…...
Virginia’s Primary Election a Wrap, Candidates Set for Fall
Virginia’s 2025 general election candidates are set in the off-year election after the June primary election Tuesday; absentee ballots are still being finalized this week. In the Democrat statewide primary races, state senator Ghazala Hashmi squeaked out the nomination for lieutenant governor among a crowded field by just over 3,500…...
NOVA, Get Ready for a Voting Marathon
From EPECTeam newsletter: Virginia voters and election officials around the Commonwealth are heading into the last two weeks of its 45-day early voting stretch before the June 17th Primary Election. The results will finalize statewide candidates for Attorney General, Lt. Governor ahead of the gubernatorial election in the fall, and…...
VA General Election DAL Stats
- Approved Permanent Absentee List Voters With No Corresponding Registration Record in Virginia March 12, 2026Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF): There are at least 6,096 statewide records that are currently approved to receive absentee ballots, on a permanent basis, that DO NOT HAVE CORRESPONDING RECORDS EXISTING in the Registered Voter List. Derivation: As we’re now in the early voting period for the VA April 21 2026 Special Election regarding the […]Jonathan Lareau
- 2026 VA April 21 Special Election DAL File Metrics March 7, 2026Below you will find the current summary data and graphics from the 2026 VA April 21 Special Election Daily Absentee List files. We pull the DAL file everyday and track the count of each specific ballot category in each daily file. It should be noted that EPEC strongly encourages voters to make their voices heard […]Jonathan Lareau
- Non-citizen registrations with previous voting history in VA election data – update Jan 2026 January 21, 2026We have updated our previous analysis (see March 2024, July 2024, Sept 2024, Oct 2024, Nov 2024, Dec 2024, March 2025 and August 2025 posts) 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 7,343 unique registrations that were self-identified as “Declared Non-Citizen” […]Jonathan Lareau
- 2025 VA November General Election DAL File Metrics September 20, 2025Below you will find the current summary data and graphics from the 2024 VA November General Election Daily Absentee List files. We pull the DAL file everyday and track the count of each specific ballot category in each daily file. Note: Page may take a moment to load the graphics objects. Linear Scale Plot: Place […]Jonathan Lareau
- Potential Duplicate Registrations in VA Voter List – August 2025 August 10, 2025I previously had put together analysis that utilized the full name and date of birth information from the Virginia Registered Voter List (“RVL”) in order to look for duplicate registrations, either exact matches or by using a string distance measure (the Levenshtein distance) to accommodate for typos, abbreviations, and mis-spellings. Just prior to the start […]Jonathan Lareau