Virginia might change how absentee votes get counted File Photo/Don Del Rosso Early voters line up at the Fauquier County registrarâs office to cast their ballots in September. Absentee ballots get processed in one total, separate from the precincts in which voters live. Iâll tell you this, if weâre shooting rockets off into space at Wallops Island, we can figure out what precinct a voter is from. — Sen. Mark Peake (R-Lynchburg) ⢠Adjourns: Saturday, Feb. 27 Despite lingering, and unfounded, fraud suspicions on the right, a recently issued state report called the 2020 election the âmost safe, secure, and successfulâ in Virginiaâs history.