Absentee Voting Down in Fairfax County, Up in VA
VPAP reports Virginia has seen a 2 percent uptick in absentee ballots from 2008.
Update (4:15 p.m. Nov. 5, 2012) Absentee voting in Fairfax County is down about 2.7 percent from 2008, according to numbers released by the Virginia Public Access Project on Monday, Nov. 5, 2012. In 2008, 83,523 county residents cast absentee ballots, compared to 81,273 in 2012. But while absentee voting in Fairfax County is still down slightly, early voting in Virginia is up overall from rates in 2008. VPAP reports that as of Nov. 5, 2012, absentee voting is up about 2 percent in the Commonwealth. Of Virginia's 5.4 million registered voters, 427,987 have cast absentee ballots. The earlier version of this story reported numbers through Friday, Nov. 2, 2012. --- While people across the country may be turning out in large numbers to vote …
John Farrell
11:17 pm on Monday, November 5, 2012
The mismanagement of both the in-person and mail-in absentee process this year should be an embarassment to the entire County government. Whether it's the immigrant couple at North County who were yelled at by an election officer that "Virginia doesn't have early voter" and turned away chagrined or the college student away from home whose application was mailed in September and still hasn't … more ›