Experts criticize West Virginia’s plan for smartphone voting

(credit: Esther Vargas / Flickr) The state of West Virginia is planning to allow overseas voting via smartphone in the 2018 election, and election security experts aren’t happy about it. “Mobile voting is a horrific idea,” said Joe Hall, an election security expert at the Center for Democracy and Technology in an interview with CNN. […]

West Virginia’s governor is switching parties tonight at a rally with Trump

(AP Photo/Steve Helber) West Virginia’s Democratic governor is leaving the Democratic Party and joining the Republican party on Thursday. The New York Times reported that Jim Justice, the Democratic former businessman, will join President Donald Trump at a rally tonight in Huntington, where he will announce that he is switching parties. This isn’t the first […]

Trump had an outsized impact on Virginia’s primaries — but not how people expected

AP Photo/Cliff Owen RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — President Donald Trump had an outsized effect on Virginia’s primary contests for governor, but not in the ways most people expected. Democratic voters were energized in opposition to Trump and turned out in higher-than-expected numbers Tuesday. But the majority were happy to back the more moderate and establishment-favored […]