Fairfax EB Investigating Noncitizens with Voting History in Virginia
By Erin Marie Joyce, EPEC Voter News Progressive-aligned media outlets often claim (without citation) that non-citizens who vote illegally “almost never happens.” Virginia’s own Dept. of Elections records say otherwise. Electoral boards are taking action to investigate. The largest county’s electoral board is the latest. It is now sending to…...
Fairfax EB Refers Noncitizens on Voter Rolls to AG
From EPEC Voter Newsletter: Three items to cover: —Early Voting Starts Friday, Sept. 20 in Virginia —Fairfax County Election Board Takes Action on Noncitizens Voting —The New DemTech Pollbook Provider? Virginia’s 45-Day Voting Stretch Begins Early voting started today (Sept. 20) in for Virginia’s 2024 Presidential Election, concluding on Nov.…...
VA Pollbook Changes Appear to Violate Election Certification
Exclusive: New e-mail releases show that election officials were aware of the risks back in April about DemTech’s murky status as a provider of pollbook software for voting. A major vendor of electronic poll book software across Virginia appears to have violated state certification standards after it abruptly ended support…...
‘ELECT’ Removes Key Voter Data in Last-Minute Switch
From EPEC Team Voter News: Three weeks before the start of early voting in Virginia’s 2024 presidential election, the Department of Elections has thrown voter-participation groups into a scramble by suddenly removing full date of birth in official registered voter lists. The reasoning cited a Virginia statute that says voter-data…...
Youngkin’s Election EO Makes a Splash
From the EPEC Team Newsletter: Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin’s Executive Order about election security – including removing noncitizens from voter rolls – made a splash this week with election watchers around the nation. Executive Order 35 recounts the administration’s modernization of election systems it has undertaken in the past few…...
Is VA’s ELECT Ignoring Voter-Roll Errors?
From the EPEC Team Newsletter: Yes, Virginia, we have noncitizens on voter rolls. And yes, noncitizens were voting for years before they removed themselves from Virginia’s voter rolls, according to Dept. of Election data and EPEC Team analysis. That’s an ongoing problem. But that’s not all. Localities and counties still…...
Is VA Ready for the 2024 General Election?
Analysis by Rick Naigle, Senior Analyst, EPEC Voter News: EPEC Team data analysts reviewed voting data from the June 18th Primary election and found serious discrepancies. There is still time to fix the problems before November. Virginia’s 2020 election experience during the COVID-driven shift to mail-in ballots was marred by…...
Absentee Ballot Controversy in VA’s CD-5 Primary
From EPEC Team Newsletter: Expect a Recount and More in VA’s Republican CD 5 Primary, Local Races U.S. Senate Race is set, Other Congressional Races Why Gov. Youngkin’s EO on Voter Roll Improvements Matters 1. Accusations Flying, Recount Expected in VA 5 Republican Congressional Primary It’s a nail-biter of a…...