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Voter News, Plus Analysis from Digital Poll Watchers

Virginia’s 2023 General Election Results are (Almost) In

November 8, 2023

From the EPEC Team Newsletter: After 45 days of early voting, and based on live feeds from localities to Virginia’s Dept. of Elections, Democrats held the Commonwealth assembly by capturing…

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EPEC Launches FOIA Document Library

October 3, 2023

Daily Chart: VA Early Voting Stats

September 25, 2023

When EPEC Met ELECT

September 20, 2023

The EPECTeam Newsletter has launched! You can sign up here to subscribe to the free weekly update on our work as a charitable nonprofit promoting voter participation and education about…

VA Counties with More Registrations Than Eligible Voters

September 20, 2023

September 20, 2023 — Nonprofit groups and citizens recently announced they have found 43 counties and independent cities in Virginia and four counties in Arizona that may have more voters…

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