The Public’s Right to Election Records
swin44 @ ine800 One of our projects is acquiring publicly available election records before their retention dates expire, and to pay the time of General Registrars to produce them.
swin44 @ ine800 One of our projects is acquiring publicly available election records before their retention dates expire, and to pay the time of General Registrars to produce them.
royalebos @ royaleboss 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 and federal voter-list management laws, who is overseeing ELECT? Amid a string of policy decisions that have all but invited litigation over compliance with federal Mistakes, questionable ‘opinions’ of transparency statutes, and outright violations of federal laws on voter-list management. Is it time for more oversight of the overseer of Virginia’s elections?
paus15 @ 8888ft 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’ work managing the 45-day election marathon. EPEC Team thanks all of them — and the volunteers who make EPEC Team run. Over 4.8 million voters
singa28 @ rp6 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 plowing through a record number of provisional ballots in the official count. The deadline for localities to report out their results is tomorrow (Nov. 15th). Virginia’s provisional and Same Day Registration tallies have county electoral boards plowing through more than 120,000 ballots ahead of deadlines to report results to the state electoral board.
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 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 EPEC Team offers early analysis about VA’s performance of vote-data feeds after Tuesday’s historic national election swept in a Republican White House, Senate majority and likely hold of the House.
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 President Trump, who remained on Virginia voters went for VP Harris in 2024 presidential race that was a neck and neck tally until the final precincts came in. The counting continues today with record-breaking Same Day Registrations.
Close to 40% of Virginia’s active voters have cast ballots for the Presidential Election, U.S. Senator, and 11 Congressional Districts. Quick rundown on the stats, plus 18K provisional ballots.
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 States District Court for the Supreme Court issues stay of a controversial Fourth Circuit ruling that ordered Virginia to return noncitizens to voter rolls. Gov. Youngkin responds. Early voting rolls on.
Youngkin administration asks high court to stay a federal ruling that ordered noncitizens back on voter rolls. Plus, skyrocketing provisional ballots and other analysis of week 6 early voting.
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 individuals who declared themselves noncitizens
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