The list of localities declared to have sustained a major disaster has grown to include nearly all of Southwest Virginia over the last month.
Elizabeth Beyer
Elizabeth Beyer is our Richmond-based state politics and government reporter.
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U.S. Supreme Court sides with Virginia officials, allows purge of ‘noncitizens’ on voter rolls to continue
The decision was handed down on Wednesday, with Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissenting.
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Virginia violated federal law, Justice Department tells U.S. Supreme Court
The Department of Justice argued that Virginia officials violated a federal law when it removed 1,600 voters from the rolls following an executive order by Gov. Glenn Youngkin. The DOJ response came after the state asked the U.S. Supreme Court to delay an order by a lower court to return those voters to the rolls.
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Lynchburg Better Together: A shadow PAC or little-known volunteer group?
A group of volunteers with the goal of getting Democrats elected to city office in Lynchburg has gotten itself into hot water when it mistakenly included its name in the fine print on campaign signs.
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Meet some Virginians who almost lost their right to vote after being declared ‘noncitizens’
Dozens of people in Southwest Virginia had their voter registration canceled after Gov. Youngkin handed down an executive order on Aug. 7 that removed “noncitizens” from Virginia’s voter rolls. Some of them are U.S. citizens.
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Trump will campaign in Salem on Nov. 2
The announcement came after a judge halted the state’s purge of voter rolls.
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Where does the 5th District Republican Party go from here? A look into the tumult wrangling the conservative stronghold
It all started with a June 6 letter to former President Donald Trump that asked him to reconsider his endorsement of state Sen. John McGuire over the incumbent Rep. Bob Good.
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Candidate for mayor in Boones Mill arrested on charges of indecent exposure and assault
Donald “Whitey” Taylor Jr. was arrested on Tuesday on multiple charges leveled against him by employees of his store, Trump Town USA.
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Millions of dollars are going to Virginia’s federal elections
Virginia’s U.S. Senate race between the incumbent Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine and his Republican challenger, Hung Cao, has garnered the most money out of any Congressional election in the commonwealth this year.
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Despite lawsuit, Virginia’s voting machines are among most secure in the US, review finds
A lawsuit filed this month seeks to force a hand-count of ballots in Waynesboro, claiming that the use of machines violates state and federal law.