Post by Logan on Mar 2, 2016 5:30:02 GMT -6
Former election officials testify that no Va. voters denied due to photo ID law
Several former state and local election officials testified Tuesday that they were not aware of any eligible voter who has been denied the right to cast a ballot because of Virginia’s photo voter ID requirement enacted in 2013.
“None,” said Cameron Quinn, a former state elections official who from 2011 until last year was the general registrar for Fairfax County, testifying in the sixth day of a trial before U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson in a lawsuit filed by the Democratic Party of Virginia and two voters challenging the state law. Fairfax is the state’s largest jurisdiction and has 700,000 registered voters.
Justin Riemer, a former member of the Virginia State Board of Elections and Donald Palmer, the former secretary of the board, also testified Tuesday that they were not aware of anyone unable to vote because of the photo requirement.
Palmer knew there were some provisional ballots cast by voters who showed up at the polls that were not ultimately counted either because the voter did not or could not take the follow-up steps — provisional ballots are counted once the voter faxes, emails or presents valid photo ID to the registrar’s office or goes there to obtain free voter ID by noon of the Friday after the election.
Read more: www.richmond.com/news/article_5a603fe5-7a08-504b-b2c7-257915ae6d42.html
Several former state and local election officials testified Tuesday that they were not aware of any eligible voter who has been denied the right to cast a ballot because of Virginia’s photo voter ID requirement enacted in 2013.
“None,” said Cameron Quinn, a former state elections official who from 2011 until last year was the general registrar for Fairfax County, testifying in the sixth day of a trial before U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson in a lawsuit filed by the Democratic Party of Virginia and two voters challenging the state law. Fairfax is the state’s largest jurisdiction and has 700,000 registered voters.
Justin Riemer, a former member of the Virginia State Board of Elections and Donald Palmer, the former secretary of the board, also testified Tuesday that they were not aware of anyone unable to vote because of the photo requirement.
Palmer knew there were some provisional ballots cast by voters who showed up at the polls that were not ultimately counted either because the voter did not or could not take the follow-up steps — provisional ballots are counted once the voter faxes, emails or presents valid photo ID to the registrar’s office or goes there to obtain free voter ID by noon of the Friday after the election.
Read more: www.richmond.com/news/article_5a603fe5-7a08-504b-b2c7-257915ae6d42.html