
U.S. House passes Voting Rights Advancement Act
The House of Representatives today passed legislation to defend Americans against attacks on their voting rights.

The House of Representatives today passed legislation to defend Americans against attacks on their voting rights.

Augusta County voters largely voted straight ticket, except when it came to the vote for sheriff.

Readers of this column no doubt have next Tuesday, Nov. 5, marked as election day on their calendars.

The Virginia Department of Elections announces two upcoming deadlines for voters wishing to participate in the Nov. 5 General Election via an absentee ballot.

FairVote hailed the introduction of the Ranked Choice Voting Act (HR 4464) by Congressman Jamie Raskin (MD-08) and a group of House colleagues, and marked momentum for ranked choice voting.

Absentee voting for the Nov. 5 General Election begins statewide on Friday, Sept. 20. Qualified Virginia voters may vote absentee in-person at their local voter registration office or by mail.

The Waynesboro Democratic Committee and Augusta County Democratic Committee will host a talk on “The Crisis of Elections: Myths Debunked and the Future Revealed.”

Washington Monthly released its 2019 College Rankings, in which James Madison University was at the top of the list for being one of the Best 80 Colleges for Student Voting.

U.S. Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), a member of the Senate Budget Committee, issued the following statement following Senate passage of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2019, a two-year bipartisan budget deal that would suspend the debt ceiling until July 2021.

The League of Women Voters of the United States and the League of Women Voters of the District of Columbia today filed an amicus brief along with partner civil rights groups in the D.C. voting rights case Castanon v. United States.
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