Category: Elections
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These Virginia Constitutional Amendments Need Opposition, Not Neutrality
A 32-30 vote to remain “neutral” where Republican State Central Committee members couldn’t even put their names to their votes? Unacceptable. by Shaun Kenney Now I will grant this. Never has a unit committee or state committee endorsement swung an election, at least not in recent memory. This is how inconsequential votes from the Republican…
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Lawsuit Challenges Virginia’s Abortion Amendment as Deceptive
Physicians are suing to block a ballot question they say conceals the true scope of the legislation. by Victoria Manning A group of physicians and other medical professionals along with a local voter have filed a lawsuit challenging an abortion-related constitutional amendment on Virginia’s ballot this November. The complaint alleges that the ballot question adopted…
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Reading The Virginia Supreme Court Tea Leaves
by Kerry Dougherty These are the parlor games court watchers are playing in Virginia as the commonwealth’s Supreme Court justices mull one of the most consequential decisions of their careers. The seven justices will decide if the recent redistricting referendum, the one restoring gerrymandering to Virginia, will stand. It shouldn’t. And the entire country is…
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Gerrymandering Election Results: 10 to 1 or 8 to 3.
by Chris Saxman Virginia might not be 10-1 after all. Check out this – very early – data via X.com. This has not been verified yet. With higher than expected turnout in the rural areas Virginia might have voted 8-3 vs. 10-1. Again – pending verification. Yes, I am saying that twice! <END SCENE>
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Judge Rules Gerrymandering Election Unconstitutional
by Scott Dreyer On Wednesday, Tazewell County Circuit Court Judge Jack Hurley issued an injunction against the yes/no gerrymandering election that concluded April 21, thus blocking the state from certifying the results. Attorney General Jay Jones (D), who gained notoriety in October 2025 when his texts surfaced where he had fantasized about the murder of a Republican lawmaker…
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Guess Who Won on Redistricting?
The Rich Men north of Richmond may have won for a day, but they cashed out every ounce of public goodwill they had to do it. by Shaun Kenney First and foremost, let’s knock down all the pretended olive branches from those who voted “yes” on Tuesday to impose some sort of federal anti-gerrymandering law.…
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Virginia Got Fairfaxed
by Kerry Dougherty For brief time on Election Night it appeared that common sense and fair play had prevailed in Virginia. You could see it in the horror on the faces of the CNN hosts as they were forced to report that a NO vote on the blatantly misleading redistricting referendum was ahead by almost…
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How Democracy Dies: One Step at a Time
In the immortal words of Sen. Louise Lucas, D-Portsmouth, president pro tempore of the state senate: “Ten Fuckin’ One.”
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Mailing It In
by Dick Hall-Sizemore In Virginia, there is “no-excuse” absentee voting by mail. Any registered vote can cast a ballot by mail. Furthermore, if a voter chooses to mail the absentee ballot to the registrar, it will be counted as long as it is received by the general registrar’s office by noon on the third day following…
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Warner Files to Run for 4th Term
by Scott Dreyer Sen. Mark Warner (D), one of Virginia’s two U.S. senators, announced on March 16 that he is running for a fourth, six-year term. Warner, born in Indianapolis and the first in his blue-collar family to attend college, invested heavily in early cell phone technology, which made him tremendously wealthy. Warner has publicly stated he knew…
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Don’t Write Off the Virginia GOP Just Yet
Question: How would Louise Lucas’ “ten to f***ing one” congressional redistricting map fare if voters cast ballots more in line with yesterday’s voting pattern than the 2025 gubernatorial election pattern?
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Dorothy McAuliffe Bigfoots Fellow Democrat Dan Helmer
by Kerry Dougherty I almost feel sorry for Democrat Del. Dan Helmer. OK, not really. He desperately wants to go to Congress and his twice-thwarted dream seemed within reach when Democrats drew a lobster-shaped district just for him in their new gerrymandering scheme. Now it looks like Helmer’s going to get his teeth kicked in. Again. …
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A Slippery Slope Down to Dark Backroom Deals
by Chris Braunlich Unless Virginia voters reject the constitutional amendment on the ballot April 21, gerrymandering will return to Virginia. Five years ago, 66% of Virginia voters — 2.8 million Virginians — approved a bipartisan redistricting constitutional amendment ending gerrymandering. The result was a map that is widely regarded as one of the fairest in…
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ERIC is Back
by Dick Hall-Sizemore Despite professing concern for election integrity, former Gov. Youngkin pulled Virginia out of Electronic Registration Information Center, Inc., (ERIC), an organization developed to enable states to share data in order to clean up their election rolls and identify people who might try to vote in different states. The General Assembly has passed,…
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Follow-up on Voter Registration Rolls Suit
by Dick Hall-Sizemore There was considerable reaction to my recent article regarding the U.S. Dept. of Justice suing Virginia for not turning over an unredacted copy of the statewide list of registered voters. Two comments in particular struck me as needing some response from me. Matt Hurt posed this question: “The National Voter Registration Act of 1993…