The House Privileges and Elections Committee held an organizational meeting to announce four subcommittees and their assignments, then received informational presentations from New Virginia Majority and the ACLU of Virginia on legislative priorities including election worker resources, voting rights restoration, voter roll maintenance, SAVE database use, and updates to the Virginia Voting Rights Act. No legislation was acted upon and no substantive votes were taken.
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Sign in to subscribeGood morning. Good morning. We are going to call this meeting of the House Privileges and Elections Committee meeting to order. And our first order of business is to take attendance. So if, Madam Clerk, you will open the roll. Thank you. And members, please put it up there that you're here. Sorry. All right, so we have 15 present. And I do believe I got text messages that more on the way. Thank you so much. So today will be the only light day of our sess. But we did need to get organized so that we can start our subcommittee work next week. So before we do announcements, I did want for us to just follow up on the presentations that we had in our elections boot camp. And I encourage new members to the committee to go back and watch that. It was very informative. But from finding out what's going on across the nation and what some of the issues were, we now have an opportunity to hear some of the legislative priorities from two organizations that are directly in the fight for voting rights and I guess, voting justice. I'll go with. So first up…
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