Category: Electoral process
-
Bacon Bits: Why-Virginians-Are-Losing-Faith-in-Government Edition
The state ends at Roanoke. It’s a long way from Clintwood, county seat of Dickenson County on the Kentucky border, to Richmond. Seven other state capitals are closer. As an old saying goes, “The people in Richmond think the state ends at Roanoke.” There has been nothing in recent events to dissuade them from that…
-
How Texas Gets Standing Next Time: NPV
By Steve Haner When Texas went to the United States Supreme Court last month complaining about the election processes in four other states, the case was dismissed on the issue of standing. The Court correctly replied Texas had no right to complain about how the Electoral College votes were determined in other states but could…
-
Virginia Republican Congressmen Support Coup Attempt
By Dick Hall-Sizemore After taking an oath on Sunday to support and defend the Constitution, four Republican members of the House of Representatives from Virginia supported an attempt to disregard the votes of about 5 million citizens in a vain effort to keep Donald Trump in office. These Congressmen were Morgan Griffith (9th District), Ben…
-
Commission Applicants Too White, Too Male, Too Rich
by James A. Bacon You can count on progressives and the media to make every issue under the sun about race — and for Bacon’s Rebellion to call them on the carpet for it. Here’s the latest example. It turns out that, in the minds of some, too many of the people volunteering to serve…
-
Martial Law Is NOT the Answer!
by James A. Bacon In a Tuesday Facebook post Sen. Amanda F. Chase, R-Chesterfield, a candidate for governor, called upon President Trump declare martial law and seize voting machines to find the voting fraud that resulted in Joe Biden’s election. “There needs to be a national audit,” she said. President-elect Biden, elaborated Chase, is “not…
-
With Chase Vs. Cox, The Field Looks Complete
By Steve Haner Give credit where it is due: Chesterfield Senator Amanda Chase, R-Chesterfield, had the wisdom and courage to reverse a bad decision. Virginia’s Republicans may be back in the game for 2021. Both Senator Chase and Delegate Kirk Cox had expressed a preference for their party to choose a nominee for governor by…
-
Liberty’s Curious “Think Tank”
By Peter Galuszka Imagine there is a “think tank” at a private, non-profit university. It produces no academic papers and does no peer-reviewed research. Instead, it holds podcasts, seminars and buys ads on Facebook that obviously promote a political party and president. Would that be a “think tank” or a political action committee? That about…
-
A New Low for Virginia Republicans
By Dick Hall-Sizemore Three Virginia Republican members of the House of Representatives joined a brief supporting the request from the state of Texas asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the election in four states. Think about it. The state of Texas was objecting to how four states ran their elections and was asking the…
-
Virginia Voting “Reform” Makes Fraud Easier
by Chris Adams In a Restonnow.com opinion piece last month, Delegate Ken Plum, D-Reston, listed several accomplishments of the General Assembly in 2020. Several speak positively to the Commonwealth. One, however, is noteworthy for degrading election integrity. “Non-discrimination legislation passed with the Virginia Values Act being one of the most comprehensive in the nation,” wrote…
-
Outcome Disputes May Help Kill Electoral College
By Steve Haner The battle is now rejoined to kill the Electoral College and elect a U.S. President in 2024 based purely on the national vote total. The stubborn refusal of President Donald J. Trump and many other Republicans to accept the November 3 outcome is likely to become a new talking point for Electoral…
-
14,000 Overlooked Ballots Discovered on Henrico Flash Drive — Yes, It Was an Innocent Error
by James A. Bacon The conservative blogosphere is ablaze with anecdotes and accusations of Democratic Party voter fraud. I’ll leave it to others to determine if there is any substance to the charges in in locales ranging from Philadelphia to Nevada. But there is one case very close to home — in my home jurisdiction…
-
Radical Idea: Elections Should End on Election Day
by Kerry Dougherty Here are four words Democrats don’t want to hear: “Elections must end sometime.” They were written by Justice Neil Gorsuch in a recent ruling that required Wisconsin to stop accepting ballots after 8 p.m. on Election Day. Pity that rule doesn’t apply everywhere in the United States. I know, I know. States…
-
Election Board Embraces Humpty Dumpty Logic
by Emilio Jaksetic Despite receiving more than 700 public comments, most of them negative, Virginia’s State Board of Elections has adopted a regulation eliminating the statutory requirement that absentee ballots received after election day be postmarked by no later than election day. The regulation is effective October 23, 2020. Information about the Board’s action is…
-
Virginia Should Reject the National Popular Vote Compact
by Emilio Jaksetic On February 11, 2020, the Virginia House of Delegates passed House Bill 177. If enacted into law, the legislation would have made Virginia a participant in the National Popular Vote Compact (NPV Compact), and would assign Virginia’s Electoral College votes to the presidential candidate who receives a majority of the popular vote…
-
Lost Absentees, Found Roll Call, Missing Statues
By Steve Haner Faulty Absentee Ballot Tracker Still Losing Track Complaints continue about an absentee ballot tracking system on the Virginia Department of Elections website. Someone with a problem similar to what I encountered in September reached out to Richmond’s WTVR-TV 6 News, which reported that the problem lies with the United States Postal Service.…