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There are more than 2,000 voting locations across Virginia. And each one is staffed by a handful of dedicated poll workers. These folks don’t work in elections year round, but choose each year to spend a day helping make democracy run. Here’s the story of one man in Roanoke who’s been doing it for almost 30 years.
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What happens if you show up to an early voting location, and there's an armed poll watcher there? Guns are prohibited at polling places in Virginia, but that only applies to 40 feet from the front door of the voting location — along with some other exceptions.
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Your local registrar has a sample ballot that’ll show you what's on the ballot where you live. But political parties also have sample ballots, pieces of paper that are mailed to members of a political party and handed out at polling places.
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As long as campaign volunteers are more than 40 feet from the front door of a polling location, they can record voters coming and going and ask questions about which candidates they’re supporting. Voters don't have to answer, of course. But the campaigners have a First Amendment right to take pictures and ask questions.
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When Election Day was the sole focus of campaigns, the idea of an October surprise was a time-honored way to change the narrative leading into the final few weeks before an election. But now with early voting, Election Day is more of a season. And every day in October is essentially Election Day.
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Talk to local officials running those elections and they’ll tell you their job has become busier in the past few years – complicated by the fight against misinformation. Now local registrars are turning to communication pros to help wage that battle.
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Virginia’s Attorney General recently announced the formation of an Election Integrity Unit. A group, the AG’s office says, that will provide legal advice to the Department of Elections and investigate violations of state elections law.
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Voters in five congressional districts will be selecting candidates, plus a handful of local elections will also be on the ballot.
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Lawyers hired by the Virginia Redistricting Commission have advised the body to revise existing maps rather than start from scratch, the co-chair of the…
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Even though observers think Southwest Virginia is likely to lose seats, only one person from Southwest spoke at a virtual hearing for the Virginia…