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Dept. of Elections reinstates 3,400 purged voters and more Va. headlines [1]

['Staff Report', 'More From Author', '- October']

Date: 2023-11 

• Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s elections department announced it had reinstated the voter registrations of roughly 3,400 people who were erroneously canceled as part of an effort to scrub the rolls of people with felony convictions who had reoffended after having their right to vote restored.—VPM

• The University of Virginia Innocence Project will get “unlimited access” to case files involving a corrupt Norfolk police officer as part of an effort to look for potentially flawed or wrongful convictions.—Virginian-Pilot

• A Republican couple in Montgomery County is putting up political signs that say they’re funded by “Citizens for Local Government,” but no PAC with that name exists. The controversy is drawing attention to Virginia’s lax enforcement system for potential violations of electioneering rules.—Cardinal News

• Firefighters are still trying to contain a central Virginia wildfire that has spread to about 390 acres.—WRIC

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