Editorial shorts
Coming soon to a DMV near you?
In the Internet age, it’s possible to avoid most trips to the state Department of Motor Vehicles by taking care of licensing and registration business online. New driver’s license applicants still have to show up and prove their identity, though. And thousands arrive at DMV offices every month only to be told to come back with their birth certificate. …
An endurance test at the polls
We don’t know if Virginia House members were watching Tuesday night’s State of the Union address when President Obama pointed out 102-year-old Desiline Victor in the House visitors gallery. Victor, the president told gathered lawmakers, had to make two trips to her South Florida polling place and wait in line for hours last November, but she was determined to cast her vote. And did.
Members of Congress stood and applauded. …
Will partisanship creep into Salem politics?
In Virginia, localities cannot do much without express permission from the General Assembly. They can’t even set reasonable rules for electing a Salem City Council.
Salem’s council has long enjoyed a high degree of comity thanks in large part to the fact that candidates run as independents. Without Republican and Democratic loyalties mucking things up, council could deal with local issues that are nonpartisan to begin with. …
February 16, 2013 - 12:08 AM
It seems too easy to vote early or absentee in recent years. Now that almost everyone is “handicapped” in some form or another it will get even easier. What’s the point of having a “Election Day” at all if all of the voting takes place before the election?
election day would be a deadline … thats the day you count them up. seems simple enough to me. why not enable folks to vote??