Issue Position: Election Reform

Issue Position

Every Virginian has a right to cast their vote and feel confident that their vote will be counted. Voting should be convenient and easy enough that you don't need to take leave from work as a cost of participating in our democracy. I support common sense reforms to allow early voting for any reason or no reason at all. I support funding to allow localities to purchase state of the art voting equipment to move voters into and out of the polls as quickly as possible.

As Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chairman Sharon Bulova's appointee to the BiPartisan Election Process Improvement Commission, I spent months studying exactly what went wrong on November 6, 2012, and participated in drafting a number of recommendations to improve the process. In the meantime, while Republicans and Democrats in Fairfax County were working together to find solutions, radical tea party elements of the Republican majority in Richmond passed new laws to make it more difficult and more expensive to vote.

As a member of the General Assembly, I will work to repeal Virginia's voter ID laws that solve an imaginary problem while discouraging the poor and elderly Virginians from participating in elections.

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