Virginia’s 2025 Election came to a close early Tuesday night with a Democrat sweep that is shaping up to be the year that absentee mail-in ballots swamped Republican balloting. Democrats took all the top races and flipped 13 House of Delegate seats to increase their majority and currently hold a…...
VA Voter-Registration Changes Up For 2025 Elections
From EPEC Team newsletter: Bills are a response to Virginia’s Same Day Registration chaos in 2024. EPEC’s roundup looks at election bills the governor signed, and ones that met the veto pen. Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed two bills this week that provide Virginia citizens (especially college students) more time to…...
VA ’24 Election Snowed by SDR Chaos
From EPEC Team Newsletter: Virginia’s experiment with its Same Day Registration statute, which went into effect in 2022, met its first major stress test during the 2024 Presidential Election. Based on logs available so far, this much of a partial verdict is in: SDR voters overwhelmed many precincts during early…...
VA General Election DAL Stats
- 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
- Non-citizen registrations with previous voting history in VA election data – update August 2025 August 8, 2025We have updated our previous analysis (see March 2024, July 2024, Sept 2024, Oct 2024, Nov 2024, Dec 2024 and March 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 6,086 unique registrations that were self-identified as “Declared Non-Citizen” and removed […]Jonathan Lareau
- Validating Ed Solomon’s Observations on CO 2020 data May 27, 2025Recently I was made aware of the work Ed Solomon had been doing with data from the 2020 Colorado Cast Vote Records (CVRs), and I’ve taken some time to replicate and validate some of his data observations. I don’t always agree with Ed, but I wanted to take some time and verify the facts of […]Jonathan Lareau