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It took until Monday night, more than 48 hours after the GOP’s jerry-built, 39-site, mostly drive-up Virginia “convention” ended, but former Carlyle CEO Glenn Youngkin, a Donald Trump loyalist, will be the state’s GOP nominee for governor. The only candidate to acknowledge that Joe Biden won the presidency, former House speaker Kirk Cox, was the first of the four major candidates to be eliminated as the ranked-choice votes were hand-tallied hand-tallied because some candidates didn’t trust the vote-counting software the party proposed using.
by Tyler Arnold, The Center Square | April 30, 2021 05:00 PM Print this article
Some Virginia Republicans have expressed concern over the attorney general s role in an upcoming investigation into a report that accused the parole board of illegal and unethical activity.
The Office of the State Inspector General penned a report that accused the board of ignoring laws and policies when determining the release of certain prisoners. It alleged that the board failed to keep records of minutes, failed to properly notify the victims of families regarding the release of inmates and selectively chose witnesses that would speak favorably of the release of a prisoner into parole.