This week the House Privileges and Elections Committee’s Elections subcommittee tabled multiple measures that would have changed Virginia’s absentee voting laws.  SB188, introduced by Sen. John Miller (D-Newport News), would have allowed individuals 65 years or older to vote absentee upon request.  The subcommittee tabled the bill with a voice vote, as it had done earlier in the session with a similar House bill.

SB69 from Sen. Jennifer Wexton (D-Loudoun), which would have allowed nursing and assisted living center residents to use their center-provided photo identification cards as an acceptable form of voter identification, was continued to 2017.  That motion gives the committee the opportunity to reconsider the bill next year provided the committee acts on it by December.