Virginia Voting Rights Restoration Amendment
The most recent iteration of this amendment, HJ 2 / SJ 248, was passed by both the Virginia House of Delegates and the Senate during the 2025 legislative session. The amendment must pass again in next year’s legislative session before heading to the ballot for a statewide vote at the earliest, in November 2026.
Virginia Voting Rights Restoration Amendment
Testimony urging the Virginia House of Delegates Committee on Privileges and Elections to carry over HJ 2—a constitutional amendment to ensure Virginians who are not incarcerated and not currently judicially declared incompetent have the right to vote—to the 2025 legislative session. (2024)
Virginia Voter Satellite Offices (2024)
Testimony in support of Virginia HB 1490 which would give local governments more flexibility to establish additional voter satellite offices while protecting existing in-person voting access set out by the Virginia Code. The bill also provides that reductions in dates or hours cannot be enacted within 60 days of a general election. (2024)
Virginia Campus Voting Sites
VA HB 941 would require registrars to establish satellite offices on public four-year campuses with enrollment of more than 3,000 students, which would have the effect of creating early voting (absentee-in-person) sites at each of those campuses.
Virginia Voter Registration Errors
Letter to the Virginia Commissioner of Elections to Ensure Administrative Processing Errors at the Commonwealth Department of Motor Vehicles do Not Interfere With Virginians’ Right to Register and Update their Voter Registration Information (2022)
Virginia Voting Rights Restoration
Testimony in Support of Virginia HJ 555, Which Would End Disenfranchisement of People with Felony Convictions When They Are No Longer Incarcerated (2021)
Virginia Voter Disenfranchisement
Testimony Opposing Virginia SB 1118, Which Would Require Voter Registration Application Information and Government Database Data to Match for Voters to be Registered (2021)
Preventing Racial Discrimination in Virginia
Testimony in Support of Virginia HB 1890, Which Would Require Preclearance Prior to Implementation of Certain Covered Election-related Practices to Prevent Implementation of Racially Discriminatory Policies (2021)
Virginia Pre-Registration
Testimony Supporting Virginia HB 2025, Which Would Establish Pre-Registration for 16 and 17-Year Old Citizens (2021)
Making Absentee Voting in Virginia More Accessible
Testimony Supporting Virginia SB 1097, Which Would Repeal the Witness Signature Requirement for Voted Absentee Ballots (2021)
