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Competitive Virginia races could play a critical role in the battle for Congress

Nov. 05, 2024 03:24 AM EST

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Virginia’s marquee matchups for U.S. House races in Tuesday’s election feature tight contests in a district being vacated by three-term Democratic U.S. Rep. Abigail Spanberger and a district known to flip between Democratic and Republican control. In...

Donald Trump gambles with late-stage trips to Democratic New Mexico and Virginia

Nov. 01, 2024 23:23 PM EDT

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Donald Trump is traveling to New Mexico and Virginia in the campaign's final days, taking a risky detour from the seven battleground states to spend time in places where Republican presidential candidates have not won in decades. The former president...

Virginia citizens make plans to vote after finding they've been wrongly purged from rolls

Oct. 31, 2024 16:44 PM EDT

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Phoebe Taylor was all ready to vote in Tuesday's election. She even knew her precinct number in the city of Richmond off the top of her head. So it came as a shock when a reporter informed the naturalized U.S. citizen, originally from Great Britain, that...

Supreme Court's conservative justices leave in place Virginia's purge of voter registrations

Oct. 30, 2024 18:45 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court's conservative majority on Wednesday left in place Virginia's purge of voter registrations that the state says is aimed at stopping people who are not U.S. citizens from voting. One Virginian, whose registration was canceled despite living in the...

Supreme Court allows Virginia to resume its purge of voter registrations

Oct. 30, 2024 10:01 AM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court allows Virginia to resume its purge of voter registrations.

Republicans ask US Supreme Court to block counting of some provisional ballots in Pennsylvania

Oct. 28, 2024 16:21 PM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court for an emergency order in Pennsylvania that could result in thousands of votes not being counted in this year's election in the battleground state. Just over a week before the election, the court is being asked to...

Former elections official in Virginia sues the state attorney general

Oct. 17, 2024 16:44 PM EDT

A Virginia elections official who faced criminal charges, later dropped, over a botched vote count in the 2020 presidential election sued the state attorney general Thursday, alleging malicious prosecution. Michele White says in the lawsuit, filed in federal court in Richmond, that...