Ben Paviour
Staff Reporter, VPM NewsBen Paviour covers courts and criminal justice for VPM News with a focus on accountability.
He previously covered politics and culture in Cambodia and lived pre-journalism lives as a tech writer at Google and a program manager for a youth job training program in Alameda County, California.
Email Ben: [email protected]
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A group aiming to elect Republicans has sent out flyers to Virginia voters offering to drop off ballots on their behalf. -
The total is more than 10 times the initial estimate provided by Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s office.
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Experts say FOIA laws make it hard for public to access key information.
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People who’ve had their rights restored continue to report confusion, problems accessing the ballot.
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Decades after the Virginia crime lab found DNA evidence that exonerated more than a dozen people, a new review of records shows a former employee altered evidence to help prosecutors.
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Hannah Salem Stone has been paid nearly $800K for work with the governor and accompanied him on official trips to Texas and France.
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‘Admissible’ explores alleged misconduct by Mary Jane Burton, a serologist working in the lab.
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An elections department spokesperson said at least 275 voters have been affected by the error.
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People convicted of a felony in Virginia lose their rights to vote, serve on a jury and run for office.
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Virginia officials say they are working to fix an issue after an unknown number of eligible voters were removed from the state's rolls. The issue centers on people with felonies in their past.
