Vega wins the 7th Congressional District Republican Primary

Earlier this evening, Coles District Supervisor Yesli Vega won the 7th Congressional District Republican Primary race, beating a bevy of challengers. Virginia Public Access Project announced it via Twitter.

She will now face Democratic incumbent Abigail Spanberger in the general election. As for the 10th Congressional District, it will be Democratic incumbent Jennifer Wexton against Republican candidate Hung Cao.

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U.S. Supreme Court grants stay in challenge to Youngkin’s voter purge order

by Markus Schmidt and Charlotte Rene Woods, Virginia Mercury The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday granted a temporary stay in the ongoing legal dispute over Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s executive order that resulted in the removal of over 6,000 Virginians from the state’s voter rolls.  The stay pauses a lower court’s ruling that would have required the state […]

Over 1,600 people removed from voter rolls under Youngkin order; groups seek court injunction

by Charlotte Rene Woods, Virginia Mercury Over 1,600 voters have been removed from the rolls since an Aug. 7 executive order by Gov. Glenn Youngkin, plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the governor said Wednesday on a press call.  Seventy-five voter registrations were denied in the same time period, said Ryan Snow, counsel with Lawyers Committee for […]