{"id":1680702,"date":"2022-10-09T18:34:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T22:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1680702"},"modified":"2022-10-09T18:35:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T22:35:15","slug":"virginia-lawmaker-questions-delay-of-100000-voter-registrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-lawmaker-questions-delay-of-100000-voter-registrations\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Lawmaker Questions Delay of 100,000 Voter Registrations"},"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\">16<\/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-lawmaker-questions-delay-of-100000-voter-registrations%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=1680702&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>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-virginia\">Virginia<\/a> state lawmaker is questioning why the state\u2019s Department of Elections hasn\u2019t been more forthcoming about what\u2019s causing delays in processing about 100,000 voter registrations ahead of the midterm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-elections\">elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Lionell Spruill, a Democrat who represents District 5 and holds a key state elections oversight role, sent a letter to Elections Commissioner Susan Beals on Oct. 6 seeking an explanation.<\/p>\n<p>Beals, who blamed \u201cintermittent network issues\u201d for the issue, 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 he\u00a0<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 hasn\u2019t 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>He emphasized the need for safe and reliable elections in Virginia, saying that it\u2019s\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 he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Virginia state lawmaker is questioning why the state\u2019s Department of Elections hasn\u2019t been more forthcoming about what\u2019s causing delays in processing about 100,000 voter registrations ahead of the midterm elections. 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Lionell Spruill, a Democrat who represents District 5 and holds a key state elections oversight role, sent a letter to Elections Commissioner Susan [\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-1680702","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\/1680702","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=1680702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680702\/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=1680702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}