The CNU Center for Public Policy released part 2 of its recent survey of Virginia voters. The poll of 700 registered voters was conducted January 8-10 and has a margin of error of +/- 3.7%. The poll found: Most (56%) prefer to balance to budget by cutting spending without raising taxes or dipping into the … Continue reading CNU survey part 2 →

As expected, the Senate Privileges and Elections subcommittee Constitutional Amendments, Reapportionment, Referenda met this morning and combined the four remaining bills on redistricting into one. The bill that survives is SB38, now patroned by Sens. Deeds, Cuccinelli, Howell and Stolle, and it will be heard by the full committee next Tuesday. From the press release: … Continue reading Senators reach bipartisan compromise on redistricting reform →

Del. Jimmie Massie (R-72) has submitted HB1522 that will eliminate the Department of Business Assistance. The bill would transfer the department's duties to the Economic Development Partnership. It seems to me that the only thing to be gained by such a move is that there will be one director instead of two. After all, the … Continue reading Bill highlight: Massie’s HB1522 eliminates Dept →

Weekly update of my legislative agenda issue. A tremendous amount of activity last week on these bills. And this Daily Press article gives you some sense of why. Despite bipartisan sponsorship, there are those who think any change to the process of drawing the lines is unnecessary. The last thing these guys think about is … Continue reading Monday update (01/21): Redistricting →

The CNU Center for Public Policy released part 1 of its recent survey of Virginia voters. The poll of 700 registered voters was conducted January 8-10 and has a margin of error of +/- 3.7%. The poll found: Virginia voters are more positive than negative about the state's overall direction, with 48% of them saying … Continue reading CNU survey part 1 →

Thanks to Assembly Access, we get to see the House P&E subcommittee on Elections kill not one, but two redistricting bills this morning. First up: Del. Ken Plum's HB339. By the way, note that he says that he introduced this same proposal in 1978, when there were 75 Democrats in the House of Delegates. And … Continue reading Dissing redistricting reform →

Weekly update of my legislative agenda issue. There are only a few bills dealing with the issue of verifiable voting. SB35 (Deeds) will require that hard copy op-scan ballots be rerun through the machines in the event of a recount. SB292 (Herring) will require random audits of op-scan tabulators within 24 hours after the initial … Continue reading Friday update (01/18): verifiable voting →