Update on Data Outage at VA Elections
EPEC Team is checking on the lack of updates on voter results since Sept. 26. By Monday, it looked like it was updated.
The Virginia Dept. of Elections was working through an apparent outage of voter data in its Daily Absentee List (DAL) that stopped updating as of Thursday, Sept. 25th.
By Monday afternoon, it appeared to have been fixed.
EPEC Team reached out to the elections team at ELECT to alert them about the issue. We were told the elections team was aware of the issue and working to restore.
Other groups that rely on the DAL data, such as Virginia Public Access Project (VPAP), also appeared to be showing only ballot tallies as of Friday, Sept. 26 (which actually reflects day-before activity).
According to EPEC’s CTO and Executive Director, Jon Lareau, the DAL election data feed stopped updating sometime after Thursday, Sept. 25th.
But it looks like the datasets may have been updated just as this newsletter was going out. We will keep you posted on the tallies as we update our analysis feeds.
As the summary data below shows, as of Thursday, the DAL showed about 147,244 ballots in “countable” state.
That’s a mix of 124,529 in person voters (plus 1 provisional), and the by-mail “countable” number, which reflects “marked” and “pre-processed” ballot tallies (22,714).
Just under 400,000 mail-in absentee ballots are “still out,” which means they are issued and have yet to be received.
In all, some 553,282 absentee mail-in ballots appear to be approved.
Historically, Early Voting is Way Up Compared to 2021
EPEC Team is pulling up its historical data from years’ past to compare turnout in this gubernatorial election to the 2021 election.
By the end of early voting in 2021, for example, the early vote tally was at 845,925. Many Republican voters chose to turn out on election day.
Now, we see a steady increase in turnout numbers compared to the same type of election in 2021. More in our next report. #
Find your polling place and check your registration status at the ELECT portal here:
https://vote.elections.virginia.gov/VoterInformation