{"id":1679907,"date":"2022-10-09T02:04:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T06:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1679907"},"modified":"2022-10-09T02:05:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T06:05:04","slug":"state-official-questions-delay-of-100000-voter-registrations-in-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-official-questions-delay-of-100000-voter-registrations-in-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"State Official Questions Delay of 100,000 Voter Registrations in Virginia"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fstate-official-questions-delay-of-100000-voter-registrations-in-virginia%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=1679907&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>An elected state official has questioned why <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-virginia\">Virginia<\/a>\u2019s Department of Elections hasn\u2019t been more forthcoming about the cause of delays in processing around 100,000 voter registrations ahead of the midterms.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Lionell Spruill, a Virginia Democrat representing District 5 in a key state <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-elections\">elections<\/a> oversight role, publicly wrote to\u00a0elections commissioner Susan Beals on Thursday demanding an explanation.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after Beals blamed \u201cintermittent network issues\u201d for the issue. Beals said in a statement that around 107,000 voter registrations were sent to local registrars for processing \u201cto ensure voters can be appropriately registered to vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe issue is now resolved and all impacted registrations have been identified,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo voter registration data was lost, but the issue will cause an increase in processing voter registration applications at the local level,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>In his letter, Spruill said he was disappointed to learn about the issue in a newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the future, when difficulties like these arise, the chairpersons of the Senate and House privileges and elections committees should receive notification so that we are fully informed as part of our responsibility to oversee the operations of your department,\u201d\u00a0Spruill <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ssurovell\/status\/1578123915213373447\/photo\/1\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Further, Spruill said he\u2019s \u201cvery concerned that the department has not been forthcoming to the public\u201d on the details of the network issues causing the backlog.<\/p>\n<p> Virginia Elections <\/p>\n<p>Virginia\u2019s elections have at times been very close, Spruill said, citing a 2018 House of Delegates election that was determined by a tie-breaking drawing of names from a bowl.<\/p>\n<p>Spruill emphasized the need for safe and reliable elections in Virginia and said it is\u00a0\u201cimportant that we are as transparent as possible with the public regarding these kinds of essential government functions to ensure continued integrity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is absolutely essential that every person who wants to vote is able to cast their vote,\u201d Spruill said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An elected state official has questioned why Virginia\u2019s Department of Elections hasn\u2019t been more forthcoming about the cause of delays in processing around 100,000 voter registrations ahead of the midterms. Sen. Lionell Spruill, a Virginia Democrat representing District 5 in a key state elections oversight role, publicly wrote to\u00a0elections commissioner Susan Beals on Thursday demanding [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":618,"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-1679907","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\/1679907","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\/618"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1679907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679907\/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=1679907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1679907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1679907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}