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During the pandemic, election officials started making ballot drop boxes available to make voting easier. Now, those drop boxes are an object of suspicion.
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The idea of the ballot drop box has its critics, people who say it's a drag on local governments for something that isn't even used all that much.
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Virginia voters who are in the military often lose their ability to vote in Virginia elections when they are stationed in other states.
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House Republicans passed a number of bills to roll back new election laws Democrats put into place expanding access to the ballot – limiting the period of early voting, requiring a photo ID, eliminating same-day registration, removing drop boxes.
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The House Committee for Privileges and Elections forwarded two bills to the full body, one which rolled back expanding voter access, and another on the use of photo identification at polling places, in a meeting Friday.
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Virginia had trended more Democratic in recent years, but polls show a tight race for governor between Republican Glenn Youngkin and former governor Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat. With hardening polarization and an off-year election, enthusiasm and turnout with the parties’ bases will consequential in determining the election, voters and analysts say.
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As the Virginia Redistricting Commission will consider maps for the House of Delegates Wednesday, the question of “political fairness” is likely to continue to arise, both because of legal requirements on the commission and politics.
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After weeks of debating criteria for map drawers to base their new districts on, the redistricting commission debated where to forgo instructions they gave Thursday, as they looked a the first compromise maps in the redistricting process.
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The Virginia Redistricting Commission discussed the first drafts of Virginia’s political districts Monday, and the maps’ relationship with race was a top focus of discussion.
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Registrars across Virginia are purging voter rolls of inactive voters. And advocates are concerned that might disenfranchise some voters.