{"id":1638502,"date":"2022-09-10T17:05:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T21:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1638502"},"modified":"2022-09-10T17:05:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T21:05:48","slug":"virginia-ag-forming-election-integrity-unit-to-make-it-easy-to-vote-and-hard-to-cheat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-ag-forming-election-integrity-unit-to-make-it-easy-to-vote-and-hard-to-cheat\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia AG Forming \u2018Election Integrity Unit\u2019 to Make It \u2018Easy to Vote and Hard to Cheat\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvirginia-ag-forming-election-integrity-unit-to-make-it-easy-to-vote-and-hard-to-cheat%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1638502&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Virginia\u2019s Republican attorney general, Jason Miyares, announced on Sept. 9 the formation of an \u201cElection Integrity Unit\u201d within his office that will ensure \u201clegality and purity\u201d in the election process by working with law enforcement, the Department of Elections, the State Board, and the broader community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI pledged during the 2021 campaign to work to increase transparency and strengthen confidence in our state elections,\u201d said Miyares in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oag.state.va.us\/media-center\/news-releases\/2452-september-9-2022-attorney-general-miyares-announces-new-election-integrity-unit\">press release<\/a> on Friday. \u201cIt should be easy to vote, and hard to cheat. The Election Integrity Unit will work to help to restore confidence in our democratic process in the Commonwealth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Headed by Miyares, the unit will have more than 20 attorneys, investigators, and paralegals from across the various divisions of the AG\u2019s office. They are expected to monitor processes across Virginia\u2019s 133 local electoral boards and general registrars and the bipartisan State Board of Elections starting with the upcoming midterms. Early voting begins in the state on Sept. 17, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican Party of Virginia voiced its support for the unit, and said that the AG\u2019s \u201cbold initiative will increase transparency in our elections, restore confidence in our democratic process, and better ensure that every vote is counted in accordance with the law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the same time, Democrats in the state senate have blocked common-sense election integrity measures like voter ID,\u201d it\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/virginia.gop\/republican-party-of-virginia-statement-on-the-creation-of-an-election-integrity-unit-at-the-office-of-the-attorney-general\/\">added<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Epoch Times has reached out to the office of Virginia Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the creation of this unit, Attorney General Miyares has fully embraced Trump\u2019s \u2018Big Lie\u2019 and the far-right fringes of the Republican party,\u201d said Democratic Party of Virginia spokesman Gianni Snidle, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virginiamercury.com\/2022\/09\/09\/virginia-ag-announces-20-person-election-integrity-unit\/\">Virginia Mercury<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> Voter Fraud in Virginia <\/p>\n<p>The statement from the Virginia GOP included the news of a former election official who has been prosecuted by Miyares for election fraud. \u201cJust this week, we saw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia\u2019s Republican attorney general, Jason Miyares, announced on Sept. 9 the formation of an \u201cElection Integrity Unit\u201d within his office that will ensure \u201clegality and purity\u201d in the election process by working with law enforcement, the Department of Elections, the State Board, and the broader community. \u201cI pledged during the 2021 campaign to work to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":186,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1638502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1638502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1638502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1638502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1638502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}