The DPVA Steering Committee met last night and endorsed the Senate-passed Congressional redistricting plan that provides for two opportunity districts. The SC also recommended nominating the… Read More »DPVA Steering Comte supports Dem redistricting, 2012 Senate Primary, NoVa Convention
I would like to share the attached statement from State Senator Mamie Locke in support of the DPVA Resolution favoring the Senate-endorsed Congressional redistricting plan. … Read More »Sen. Locke Supports DPVA Redistricting Resolution
The Democratic Party of Virginia Steering and Central Committee meetings tonight and tomorrow will consider a couple of important political issues. (Text below) First, it… Read More »DPVA to Vote on Congressional Redistricting Resolution, 2012 Primary
The DPVA and OFA need to collect a minimum of 10,000 signatures (including 400 per congressional district) to get president Obama on the March 6,… Read More »Get Obama on Ballot for the 2012 Primary!
Yesterday, election day trauma again brought calls to extend the hours for voting beyond the statutory 7 pm cut-off. This was the first earthquake-related request,… Read More »Extending Election Hours? Not Likely.
Glad to see support for the State Senate plan which would result a congressional delegation that more fairly represents Virginia. It has been suggested that… Read More »Support Fair Congressional Redistricting
Rock the Vote recently issued its Voting System Scorecard, which serves as a national benchmark that measures state laws and policies in three key areas:… Read More »Virginia NOT Rocking the Vote
In an op-ed posted today on the U.S. News & World Report website, DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz argues that Republican-led voter ID laws infringe… Read More »DNC Chair: GOP Attacking Americans’ Right to Vote
The Virginia General Assembly returns to Richmond on June 9-10 to draw Virginia’s new Congressional districts. See Post article. The House has passed a GOP/incumbent-protection… Read More »Virginia Congressional Redistricting
Rhodes Cook at Sabato’s Crystal Ball provides a nice overview of the 2012 process, although if he had been reading, e.g., Frontloading HQ, he would know… Read More »2012 Nominating Process
The Post reports that the General Assembly will consider a congressional redistricting plan on monday. Republican delegate Janis has introduced a bill that looks a… Read More »Virginia Congressional Redistricting
Today, the the Democratic Black Caucus of Virginia joined the Virginia Legislative Black Caucus in supporting the creation of a second majority-minority congressional district during the current redistricting process. Read More »Democratic Black Caucus of VA Supports Second Majority-Minority District
has been posted (finally), here. It looks similar to the draft released on friday. It seems like it’s too late to have an impact on… Read More »Bipartisan Redistricting Commission Final Report
McDonnell’s Independent advisory redistricting panel offers up draft report…. – Shad Plank: The blog for Virginia politics. See this post for a link to the… Read More »McDonnell’s Independent advisory redistricting panel offers up draft report
On Friday, March 25, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell signed identical bills HB 1843 and SB 1246 into law, moving Virginia’spresidential primary from the second Tuesday in February to the… Read More »Governor Signs Virginia Presidential Primary Bill – March 6, 2012
The Governor signed the bill changing the primary date for General Assembly and local offices to August 23, 2011. Thanks to Arlington Democratic Chair Mike… Read More »2011 State Election Primary Update
Just in time for the DPVA meeting which will consider a presidential primary resolution, the House of Delegates yesterday by a vote of 97-1 passed… Read More »Virginia March 2012 Primary Bill Passes Both Houses
Legislation is proceeding in both houses of the General Assembly to move Virginia’s presidential primary date from the second Tuesday in February to the first… Read More »Virginia Presidential Primary Update
The House of Delegates on Tuesday (99-0) adopted the House bill which will move Virginia’s presidential primary date from the second Tuesday in February to the… Read More »Virginia Presidential Primary Date Bill Advances
The House Privileges & Elections Committee yesterday unanimously (22-0) reported the House bill which will move Virginia’s presidential primary date from the second Tuesday in… Read More »House Committee Advances VA Presidential Primary Bill
Very cool maps at the Virgina Public Access Project of Congressional, State Senate, and State House districts.
Senator Vogel’s Bill (SB 1246) has passed the Senate by a vote of 39-1, and Virginia takes a big step towards a DNC/RNC rules-compliant primary… Read More »Virginia 2012 Presidential Primary Bill Passes Senate
Virginia state law currently sets our presidential primary date for the second Tuesday in February. This date precedes both the DNC and the RNC window,… Read More »Virginia 2012 Primary Calendar
The General Assembly (by a unanimous vote) has finalized the 2011 candidate nomination process calendar for General Assembly (both House of Delegates and State Senate),… Read More »2011 Virginia Election Nominations Calendar
I have gotten behind with this site – not due to an enthusiasm deficit, but rather a work surplus. Better than the alternative, but no excuse. … Read More »VOTE, GIVE, WORK – Tuesday, November 2
Sorry to see the American Enterprise Institute/Brookings Institution Election Reform Project come to a close. There was always interesting information in their newsletters, which I… Read More »Election Reform
First, as NLS reports, the GOP continues their efforts to make voting harder — in this case, by requiring people who don’t have IDs to… Read More »Bad Voting Bills
If we want to keep moving Virginia forward, we need to elect Creigh Deeds as Governor, Jody Wagner as Lt. Governor, Steve Shannon as Attorney General,… Read More »The Only Poll that Matters: Election Day, this Tuesday, Nov. 3rd
Here is my list of 10 blogs that do a fine job of covering party rules and related election law issues: Nate Silver’s fivethirtyeight.com Dem Con… Read More »Best Blogs for Rules Geeks
The DPVA has endorsed a number of proposals pending in the Virginia General assembly to make voting easier and fairer. See Dec. 8, 2008 entry… Read More »Virginia Voting Bills