From EPEC Team Newsletter: In a win for transparency in elections and voter-roll accuracy, Virginia’s Dept. of Elections (‘ELECT’) has apparently agreed to return full month and birth dates to voter-registration lists as required under federal statute. The development comes after ELECT abruptly began withholding full date-of-birth data from client-service…...
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…...
‘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…...
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…...