than any other state in the country. but just this year they decided they would never do that again. abolished the death penalty. virginia also passed new legal protections for voting rights, leading the nation in some ways in terms of voting rights.s the past couple of years virginia also raised teachers pz salaries in the past couple of years. they also expanded pre-kindergarten for little kids in the state. they also packaged a popular and enforcement gun reforms, stuff like requiring a background check for gun sales everywhere, not just those that happened at gun stores. virginia within the last couple ouars provided new protections o in law for abortion rights in ia the state and for women to be ape to access contraception. virginia passed a whole slate of justice reforms, including legalizing pot.
early vote, absentee vote, is something they can get out within minutes of polls closing at 7:00 p.m.ng some thing they can get it out relatively quickly. others talk about it may be late at night. but fairfax county, in 2020 it was extremely late relative to other counties.x this year they are sending signals it could be extremely early. steve, obviously turnout has got a lot of variables that play into it, both because this is ai off-year election, but it is a statewide election in virginia, and we ve had so much change in terms of the way people vote, both what ways people have available to vote but their preferred ways of voting. we saw those in 2020 and they will carry forward into 2021. is there a coherent way to look at the patterns that administrators are seeing at the county level to know whether or