EPEC Team has taken the latest tallies in VA as of Oct. 21, 2024 for Congressional Districts (early ballots in “countable” state, which includes in-person voting and by-mail) and broken out the votes by high-propensity, medium-propensity, and low-propensity voters, who rarely register this early. Growth in turnout is up by 40% and 50% over last week.

By Jon Lareau, volunteer executive director/CTO, EPEC Team Republished from DigitalPollwatchers.org We have updated our previous analysis (from March, July, and Sept) 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 3,533 unique registrations that were identified … Read more

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 Election Officer Training Manual, published

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 the news hit Friday, the

VA Early Voting Trends to Note Oct. 11, 2024 Heading into the halfway mark of Virginia’s 45-day early voting phase, election-stats analysts are buzzing about better-than-usual turnout in some categories, amid lower turnout overall compared to 2020. —According to the Dept. of Elections, 614,264 ballots were in “countable” state as of Oct. 10, out of … Read more

Progressive groups file lawsuit in a bid to stop Election Department’s voter-list maintenance programs that check legal presence codes with other state databases. And the DOJ follows suit later in the day. UPDATED From EPEC Team:   Virginia’s League of Women Voters and other progressive activists are suing Virginia’s Commissioner of Elections, Susan Beals, and … Read more

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, we are releasing a statement

From EPEC Team Newsletter: EPEC Team has been tracking what appears to be about 57 anomalies in the early voting stats in the Daily Absentee List (DAL) that show ineligible individuals voting. The Dept. of Elections (ELECT) removed these individuals as part of its maintenance process. We cross-checked ELECT’s removals with the current DAL. It EPEC Team has been tracking what appears to be about 57 anomalies in the early voting stats in the Daily Absentee List (DAL) that show ineligible individuals voting

From EPEC Team Newsletter: EPEC Team’s Senior Analyst Rick Naigle’s summary of Early Voting as of Oct 2, 2024: We are at roughly 777,000 voters who have cast ballots some two weeks into the six-plus weeks of voting. In off-year elections we saw about 33% of all early voting ballots received in the first five A handful of localities with voters who were removed from the rolls by Dept. of Elections for ineligibility show they have voted on machine or have been mailed ballots. Some of these ineligible voters requested ballots after they were removed — including deceased voters who appear to have voted after they were removed.

By Jon Lareau, volunteer CTO, EPEC Reprinted from DigitalPollWatchers.org We at EPEC have had a lot of interest in the work we’ve done following the numbers of non-citizen registrant removals by the VA department of election (ELECT). I recently got asked a follow-up question as to how those numbers broke out with respect to estimated EPEC checked voting preferences of noncitizens with a voting history in VA before they were removed from rolls and found a distinct party leaning.