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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 Rick Naigle has found, on

From the EPEC Team Newsletter: Virginia’s Special Election to allow gerrymandered congressional maps is voided, the Commonwealth’s highest court ruled today (4-3), citing numerous constitutional violations. Assembly Democrats will not be able to draw new congressional maps from the current 6-5 (D-R) configuration to the 10-1 (D-R) map proposals. Today’s ruling by the Supreme Court … Read more

From the EPEC Team Newsletter: Virginia’s Board of Elections is enjoined from certifying the April 21 Special Election votes by the Friday deadline — per Tuesday’s order by the Supreme Court of VA. Will the whole thing be thrown out as a lower court has already ruled? That’s the speculation among legal and even political

From the EPEC Team Newsletter: Virginia’s April 21 Special Election on redistricting is far from settled — even before the Virginia Supreme Court takes up legal challenges to the vote after a Tazewell County Judge ruled that the referendum itself is unconstitutional and void. The unofficial numbers from the election itself have not been settling

From the EPEC Team Newsletter: Unofficially at least, the “yes” votes squeaked out a win in Virginia’s April 21 Special Election on redistricting that is still wrapping up — if it does wrap up, that is. The results would allow Assembly Democrats to take a 6-5 (D-R) congressional map and redistrict Virginia’s 11 seats to

Mouse Over the Bars to Review Early Voting Tallies: Mail-in Ballots, Issued, Number in Countable Status, In-Person Votes Early Voting began on March 6th and ended on April 18th, 2026. Game day for the redistricting vote is Tuesday, April 21. Below is a summary of Early Voting tallies across current Congressional Districts. Click to the … Read more

From the EPEC Team Newsletter: Senior Data Analyst Rick Naigle finds a statistically significant gap in R-leaning mail-in ballots being kicked to ‘unmarked’ status for ‘cure’ during processing than D-leaning ballots. Virginia Special Election Early Voting Update: —Turnout is Way beyond 2025, Heading for 2024 Rates —Unusually High Rejection Rates for Republican-leaning Mail-ins The turnout … Read more

From EPEC Team Newsletter: Virginia Special Election Early Voting Report Half of Mail-in Ballots Still ‘Out’ — Big Spikes Incoming By the time this special election wraps the counting on whether to allow Assembly Democrats to draw partisan congressional maps to a gerrymandered 10-1 (D-R) [“yes”] or to keep the current 6-5 (D-R) maps [“no”],

From the EPEC Team newsletter: Latest Executive Order directs U.S. Postal Service to increase mail-in security measures, also withholds funds from states that refuse to enforce federal election laws. The White House has issued a new Executive Order on elections that targets mail-in ballot fraud, and offers states innovative solutions to ensure only citizens are

From EPEC Team Newsletter: Lynchburg court says it will issue new injunction by Monday if Supreme Court of VA doesn’t weigh in soon on a Tazewell Court’s restraining order. A temporary restraining order by Tazewell District Court on Feb. 19, and appeal by the Commissioner of Elections notwithstanding, localities across the Commonwealth are prepping for Despite a recent ruling issued by Tazewell Judge Jack Hurley a week ago ordering preparations to halt on the special election, ELECT sent out an advisory on the same day as the ruling with key dates and schedules.