The total is more than 10 times the initial estimate provided by Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s office.

This comes after VPM reported on 10558 people losing voting rights. The Dept of Elections claimed these were caused by new felony convictions but the state police noted it marks probation violations as felonies in a state database.

VPM News is reporting that this will cause the state police to change what information gets reported to ELECT

The problems appear to stem from recent changes by ELECT aimed at removing people from voter rolls who’ve had their rights restored and subsequently been convicted of a new felony.

  • Eddie Trax@dmv.socialEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Early voting in Virginia started five weeks ago. The issue is still not fully resolved, and election day is next week.

    Definitely not planned /s

    • cosmic_slate@dmv.socialOPMEnglish
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      11 months ago

      I’m just a software developer with backups ready to roll if needed, but when I have to delete a lot of records on a production system I do a cursory check with a few entries to verify that my removal seems correct.

      This is appalling to see that a spot check might not have been done here since 1/3rd of the voters removed were done so erroneously, especially when this can be easily verified with public data from the courts.

      As much as I want to disagree with this not being planned or partially intentional, it’s very difficult to since the error rate here was so high.