From EPEC Team Newsletter: (This month, EPEC Team analysts are spotlighting the impact of new election laws in Virginia, and their influence on incomplete and inaccurate voter rolls.) Why are so many voter registration records in Virginia in violation of the Commonwealth’s statute governing them? EPEC Team’s Senior Data Analyst…...
‘ELECT’ to Return DOB Data to Compliance
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…...
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