From dueling legal rulings that could re-start the SAVE database for voter verification, the Department of Justice reminding states of election laws they are duty-bound to follow, EPEC Team is tracking a whooshing week of election developments around the nation and in Virginia. Some highlights from EPEC Team Newsletter —…...
Noncitizens Are Being Held Over on VA’s Voter Rolls
Republished from DigitalPollWatchers.org, by Jon Lareau, Executive Director, EPEC Team We have updated our previous analysis of noncitizens on Virginia’s voter rolls with a voting history. The Commonwealth’s new policy is that declared noncitizens are not to be removed from voter rolls for 90 days prior to primary and midterm…...
SCOTUS Sides with Post-Election Mail-in Ballots
From the EPEC Team Newsletter The United States Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling in Watson v Republican National Committee, allowing mail-in ballots to be counted after election day in at least 14 if not more states, is only likely to erode Americans’ trust in election results. That’s EPEC Team’s initial response…...
VA’s Vanishing Right to Challenge Illegal Voters
In this issue of EPEC Team Newsletter: —Virginians’ Vanishing Right to Challenge Illegal Voters —Download a New Tool to Track Virginia’s Controversial Election Laws Virginians’ Vanishing Right to Challenge Illegal Voters While Virginians were dealing with a rushed referendum in March and April on redistricting — which the VA Supreme…...
EPEC Team updates List of Noncitizens Who Vote in VA
By Jonathan Lareau, volunteer Chief Technology Officer, EPEC Team Reprinted from DigitalPollWatchers.org We have updated our previous analysis with the latest information from Virginia’s Department of Elections data. (See prior reports from March 2024, July 2024, Sept 2024, Oct 2024, Nov 2024, Dec 2024, March 2025 and August 2025.) Abstract:…...
‘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…...
VA Files SCOTUS Appeal Over Last-Minute Order to Put Noncitizens Back on Voter Rolls
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…...
DOJ Meets Blowback over Voter-List Suit
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…...
RITE Alerts VA on Election Law Violation
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,…...
Removed From Rolls, Still Voting
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…...
VA General Election DAL Stats
- 2026 VA June Dem Primary Election DAL File Metrics June 27, 2026Below you will find the current summary data and graphics from the 2026 VA June Dem Primary 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: […]Jonathan Lareau
- 2026 VA June Rep Primary Election DAL File Metrics June 27, 2026Below you will find the current summary data and graphics from the 2026 VA June Rep Primary 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: […]Jonathan Lareau
- Non-citizen registrations with previous voting history in VA election data – update Jun 2026 June 12, 2026We have updated our previous analysis (see March 2024, July 2024, Sept 2024, Oct 2024, Nov 2024, Dec 2024, March 2025, August 2025, and Jan 2026 posts) with the latest information from the VA Department of Elections data. Abstract: Using data provided by the VA Department of Elections (“ELECT”), we have identified at least 8,566 unique registrations that were self-identified as “Declared […]Jonathan Lareau
- 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