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 before Democrat Vice President Kamala Harris pulled out a 5-point win. By this afternoon, she had conceded the race to…...
SCOTUS Stay a ‘Win for Election Fairness’
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 common sense and election fairness.” The Supreme Court order, issued earlier today, says the Oct. 25th order of the United…...
VA Files SCOTUS Appeal Over Last-Minute Order to Put Noncitizens Back on Voter Rolls
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…...
Challenge to ELECT Over ‘Noncitizen’ Voter IDs
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 so it complies with VA statute on voter ID. According to RITE’s letter to Susan Beals: a portion of PWC’s…...
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,…...
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