UPDATE (7:08 p.m.): We have received reports that the situation has improved significantly and wait times are now much shorter.
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As the second wave of voters in Virginia return home from work, we're seeing a new crop of problems arising throughout the state. Chesapeake, today's perennial issue, is seeing the lines again approach seven hours. Election Protection has secured sworn affidavits from voters regarding their waits, one of whom has sworn to a 7 hour, 15 minute wait in line to vote at Cuffee Community Center.
At this rate, voters who arrive at 6 p.m. might be in line until 1 a.m. Election Protection is urging the Board of Elections to pour additional resources into this area for assistance.
Problems have been appearing elsewhere. According to Election Protection attorneys on the scene at Mt. Vernon Woods Elementary precinct, poll workers were liberally using provisional ballots with voters. A similar situation emerged earlier at Word of Faith Church in Suffolk, but the problem has been resolved according to Election Protection mobile legal volunteers. At that precinct, poll workers did not have hard copies of voter rolls and no sample ballots, both of which are required by law.
