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.
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Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s top elections official hasn’t announced a plan to replace the national, bipartisan system ahead of this year’s legislative races. -
Virginia is the eighth state to leave the bipartisan ERIC compact amid fringe conservative reports and conspiracy theories attempting to connect the system to liberal activists.
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Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin said he’ll continue to push for a 15-week ban if Republicans take the General Assembly in November.
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His picks to head state agencies were also whiter, more male-dominated compared to his predecessor.
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The event included panels like “Auditing Expertise,” “Mapping the Opposition: Funding Streams,” and “Election Integrity Updates from the States.”
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Every seven years Virginia's history curriculum gets a review. The latest rewrite up for consideration teaches less about slavery, racism and labor unions.
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Another state employee flagged the promotion for lawmakers. Now he says he’s being punished for his actions.
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The governor still has to sign the bill for it to take effect by July 1.
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Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has slowed restorations of voting rights for the formerly incarcerated while failing to specify what criteria he's using, sparking a federal lawsuit.
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Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has changed his predecessors' protocol for granting voting rights back to returning felons, reducing access to the ballot.
