Bloggers panel at Civics Summit

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The Virginia Civics Summit is being held in Richmond today, November 8, from 9am to 3:30pm. Kicking things off will be a blogger’s panel comprised of Virginia bloggers and moderated by yours truly. (Yeah – it will be like herding cats 😉 )

You can watch the entire summit live, including the panel, at the link here. The entire day looks to be quite interesting.

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8 thoughts on “Bloggers panel at Civics Summit”

  1. looks to be a good program, particularly the redistricting part. Many folks to whom I spoke last Tuesday were concerned, as in, “how did the 3rd Congressional district get that way”, and “does the 3rd run from Richmond, thru Hampton to Portsmouth and then Norfolk, or from Richmond thru Hampton to Norfolk and then Portsmouth”?

  2. I live out near the edge of the 3rd, and every congressional election I have to deal with people at my precinct who think they’re in the 2nd. I had a fairly prominent person say to me last Tuesday, “When did this become Bobby Scott’s district? I could swear I voted for Glenn Nye last time.” And this is absolutely not someone I would call a low-information voter.

  3. Did he happen to live in either United Way or Taylor Elementary precinct? It’s really easy to get confused since they’re split between the two districts (or at least they were in 2008, I suppose someone might have redrawn the precinct boundaries since then). The yard signs start overlapping and you’re likely to get handed two different sets of absentee ballots when you show up at the polling location on election day.

    1. Nope. This precinct has been in the 3rd since before the last redistricting. Anyone who thinks they voted for Nye, Thelma Drake or even Ed Schrock is sorely mistaken.

  5. RK- This is the first Congressional election in the last six years where I haven’t had to field a call from the state AP asking why the 16th precinct in James City County hasn’t reported. The reason is that no one lives there, it’s entirely over water and exists only so the 3rd District will be “contiguous.”

    1. I know all about water blocks (20 years at the Census Bureau will do that to you). I didn’t know there was a whole precinct out there, though.

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