(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. […]
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Want to Hunt Aliens? Go to West Virginia’s Low-Tech ‘Quiet Zone’
The 13,000-square-mile swathe of silence at the Green Bank Observatory is the perfect place for scientists to listen in on outer space. https://media.wired.com/photos/5aea02c8e87e0c72a306bdd0/master/pass/Phelpz_KranzlerDrake.jpg
Virginia’s I-66 Toll Road Really Should Be the Future of Driving
A Virginia experiment with congestion pricing encounters speed bumps—but don’t freak out yet. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a29ca1e05f16a0c504433ef/master/pass/tollbooth-TAFA.jpg Feed: All Latest
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 […]
The Trump Protégé Shaking Up Virginia’s Governor’s Race
Corey Stewart holds a Defund Planned Parenthood sign under one arm, his other wrapped around the shoulder of his newest fan boy — a baby-faced student with a camo hat and an on-point selfie game. After the two snap a pic, the kid turns to his idol and says, “In a liberal college, everyone thinks […]