Absentee Voting

Because of a recent change to Virginia election law, voters can ask that mail-in absentee ballots be sent to them in every election. Not an application for an absentee ballot, the actual ballot – but only for those who ask for it.

The law requires election officials to count absentee ballots in the precincts where the voters live instead of large murky pools that are sometimes reported at the end.

One of the unintended consequences in the rise in absentee voting is the decline of election data. All those absentee ballots – well, they’re not counted at local precincts where the voters actually live. Instead, they're counted in an at-large precinct that covers an entire city or county.

The recent rise in absentee voting has had an unintended consequence — much less data about where votes are coming from. Instead of votes being counted at your local precinct, they’re tabulated in one at-large precinct.

As more and more voters move toward absentee voting, important data about the geography of elections is not being collected.Looking over a list of…

Lawmakers are considering a bill that would ditch the signature requirement for absentee ballots.Last year, lawmakers took action to get rid of the…

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Elections officials in several Virginia cities, including Roanoke and Richmond, are trying to clean up an absentee ballot application mistake.About…

A federal judge in Lynchburg heard arguments Monday on what’s needed to cast an absentee ballot. The law does not require a witness for people voting by…