The Virginia Department of Elections says it has “streamlined” the process of removing dead voters from the rolls by allowing local registrars to use obituaries to confirm deaths and creating a form meant to make it easier for family members to notify election offices after a death. In a news
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Michael Fauntroy, an associate professor of political science at Howard University in Washington, said political campaigns have a long history of trying to suppress Black voters. “I think it happens in every election,” Fauntroy said. “The extent to how sophisticated an operation it is will depend on the sophistication of
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Crews doing roadwork on Route 10 in Chesterfield cut a Verizon cable Tuesday morning, causing a network outage for several state agencies. One of those affected agencies was the Virginia Department of Elections, where the outage made it impossible for Virginians to register to vote on the final day before
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