The VLW Blog

Patrick C. Muldoon, who live in Giles County and practices patent law in Washington, DC, has launched an uphill battle for the Republican nomination for lieutenant governor.  The Roanoke Times points out the incumbent, Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling already has strong party support for a reelection bid. 

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Let there be no doubt: an election recount is a legal event. As noted on the Democrat Central blog, there are no less than eight lawyers and judges involved in the recount of Tom Perriello’s apparent victory over incumbent Rep. Virgil Goode in Virginia’s fifth Congressional district. For Goode, lawyers Lee Goodman and Chris Ashby [...]

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A second-year law student will be among the 13 Virginia electors when they gather in Richmond on Dec. 15 to formally vote Virginia for the Obama-Biden ticket.  As noted by the law school at the College of William & Mary, Christia V. Rey will represent the first Congressional district “George Wythe would be very proud [...]

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State election officials sued by the McCain campaign say Virginia law requires them to ignore any ballots received after Election Day, even though many military voters may not have received absentee ballots in time to be delivered back to registrars by Nov. 4. “The Defendants must object to the plaintiffs’ attempt to re-write Virginia law [...]

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According to the numbers, Democrat Tom Perriello now has the slimmest of leads over incumbent Republican Virgil Goode in the back-and-forth vote count battle for Virginia’s 5th congressional seat.  But the numbers differ depending on the source, as reported by WVIR. We’re told there are still provisional ballots to be considered in Charlottesville. By Peter [...]

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One of the candidates for next year’s state attorney general election says it’s time for Virginia to adopt early voting. Roanoke lawyer John P. Fishwick Jr. says Virginia should join the 30 or more states that currently allow unfettered early voting.  (Virginia does allow early voting by absentee ballot, but absentee voters must swear under [...]

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As the dust starts to settle at last in the seesaw battle in Virginia’s 5th Congressional district, Republican incumbent Rep. Virgil H. Goode Jr. appears to have claimed a narrow victory. How narrow?  The latest vote totals from the State Board of Elections show the Rocky Mount lawyer with a 145-vote edge over Democratic challenger [...]

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President-elect Barack Obama carried Virginia last night, 52-47 percent; he is the first Democrat to do so since Lyndon Johnson in 1964. How did your city or county vote? Take a look at the handy election widget we posted from MSNBC on the home page. You can check the official results from the State Board [...]

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U.S. District Judge Richard L. Williams ordered Virginia officials to protect any overseas ballots arriving after 7 p.m. on Election Day pending the resolution of a lawsuit filed by the McCain campaign. William H. Hurd, a Richmond lawyer representing the McCain campaign, said that some jurisdictions in the state did not send absentee ballots out [...]

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People with disabilities have a heightened interest in selecting the candidates who will govern the programs that the disabled depend on.  Nevertheless, some advocates say that one class of disabled people — those with mental disabilities — are too often discouraged from registering or voting. On the other hand, some question the propriety of actively [...]

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