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Virginia Organizing leaders were present as Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe announced today that formerly incarcerated individuals will no longer need to satisfy all court costs and fees in order to have their civil rights restored by the Governor.
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An election that won’t happen for a year and a half and is likely to pit two disastrously bad presidential candidates against each other dominates the news, but here in Charlottesville there’s a local election on June 9th worth bothering with.
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Equality Virginia applauds Fairfax County School Board Members for voting on Thursday to update Fairfax County Public Schools’ non-discrimination policy to include gender identity.
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Absentee voting for Charlottesville’s June 9th Democratic primary is now in its second week. Five candidates are on the ballot seeking the Democratic Party’s nominations for three City Council seats.
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The State Board of Elections (SBE) decertified the AVS WINVote equipment at its public meeting today. The WINVote system is currently used in 30 localities, totaling more than 560 precincts around the state.
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The Department of Elections released an Interim Report on Voting Equipment Performance, Usage and Certification on Wednesday that identifies serious security concerns with WINVote voting equipment, particularly with the wireless capability of the system.
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The Republican-controlled Senate Privileges and Elections Committee ok’d an extreme proposal to restrict some of Virginia’s most vulnerable citizens from being able to participate in the democratic process on a party line vote.
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Tuesday afternoon, the Republican-controlled Senate Privileges & Elections Committee defeated several Democratic bills to make voting easier.
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Equality Virginia is applauding the move by a House subcommittee to kill a bill that would have allowed any business or professional in Virginia to blatantly discriminate against LGBT people.
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Today Governor McAuliffe announced that Virginia has restored the civil and voting rights of over 5,100 ex-offenders, more than any other governor has done in just one year.
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