'Steadily Busy': City, County Voters Begin To Cast Ballots Early
The turnout of early voters has remained steady and busy this fall, local voter registrars say.
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The turnout of early voters has remained steady and busy this fall, local voter registrars say.
Redistricting, a Community Development Block grant and a public alley closure were among the discussion topics at city council this week.
Due to population changes over the last decade, several Rockingham County election districts will have to be recalibrated, according to Mark Rathke, Rockingham County’s geographic information systems specialist.
Harrisonburg and Rockingham County voters are taking advantage of early in-person voting as more than 2,600 ballots have been cast as of Wednesday, according to local voter registrar officials.
New voting laws go into effect on July 1 in Virginia Stephanie Penn © Provided by Harrisonburg WHSV New voting laws go into effect on July 1 in Virginia HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) - A slew of new laws go into effect on July 1 in the Commonwealth, including some new voting legislation. Mark Finks, Director of Elections in Harrisonburg, said many of the new pieces of legislation are simply putting practices that were created during the pandemic into law. “Last year, of course, it was unprecedented. The state had not had to handle a lot of the situations that came into play w...