Virginia Department of Elections Corrects Same-Day Registration Voter List Error
The Virginia Department of Elections (ELECT) recently confirmed that it corrected errors in the accuracy of the voter lists previously distributed to members of the public who purchased the files.
Democrat state Sen. Dave Marsden said he was glad the errors were found before the June 20 primary.
He is facing opponent Heidi Drauschak in the primary.
Marsden’s campaign said ELECT distributed incomplete voter history data for thousands of same-day registrants and that he has been pursuing more complete and accurate lists from the department since May.
“Recently, it was discovered that same-day voters were not being included on the voter history list available for purchase pursuant to §24.2-406. This issue is being immediately addressed internally by the development of additional code,” ELECT said in a statement….