🚨HOW MANY STUDENTS ARE ACTUALLY "OUT-OF-STATE" RESIDENTS? Virginia college students are taking advantage of same-day voter registration more and more "Same-day registration is a popular choice for college students, who are now able to register to vote and cast a ballot on the same day." "Starting in 2022, college students across Virginia had an appealing new option for voting. They could walk into a registrar's office, register to vote and cast a ballot before walking out the door. That ballot is considered provisional until the registration is confirmed, and college students can do same-day voting all the way up until the polls close on November 3rd." "Chris Piper is an elections expert who says college towns have seen an influx of this kind of early voting." "'We definitely saw in 2023, 2024, and even last year in 25, students showing up, particularly at William and Mary, but in all college towns, you see a spike in the overall turnout of same-day registrations where there is a college town,' Piper says." ... MORE:⬇️ wvtf.org/news/2026-10-14/vir…

🚨ICYMI: EXCELLENT ANALYSIS OF VIRGINIA ENERGY PLANS: Before Relying on a Model, Look at the Assumptions "Last week Governor Abigail Spanberger (D) released a modeling-based energy plan for Virginia claiming it could end the use of natural gas, despite accelerating electricity demand. A year ago, Dominion Energy Virginia tested the same proposition in an integrated resource plan of its own." "Lay the two 'no gas' future energy generation outlines side by side, and they seem to be describing different states. Governor Spanberger’s resource mix is a sales pitch for massive new solar and wind investments, backed up by batteries. Dominion reported that if Virginia insists on retiring all the natural plants in 20 years, as current law requires, nuclear power should replace them." "Spanberger’s approach embraces the Virginia Clean Economy Act (VCEA) no gas goal, and Dominion last year was warning against it." ... "A key assumption behind Governor Spanberger’s plan is that there is a 'social cost of carbon' of $262 for every ton of carbon dioxide emitted by a generator, with no citation where that projection came from. The Dominion 2025 plan doesn’t mention any such cost. The Virginia State Corporation Commission has never accepted a social cost of carbon amount as a legitimate cost in deciding an application." ... "Governor Spanberger’s gas-free proposal calls for up to 39 gigawatts of additional utility scale solar generation, plus more solar from private facilities feeding the grid in a distributed generation contract. Dominion’s 2025 gas-free plan, filed with the SCC, proposed less than half as much, both utility-owned and through distributed generation." "Governor Spanberger’s proposal calls for up to 9.6 additional gigawatts of offshore wind, about 600 more of the type of turbine now being built off Virginia Beach. That would cover hundreds of square miles of ocean, just like her solar wishes would cover hundreds of square miles of land. Dominion also called for more offshore wind, but not that much." "The big difference between the two proposals is Dominion relied upon adding more than 12 gigawatts of new nuclear generation to replace the 12.7 gigawatts of hydrocarbon generation it must scrap to comply with the Virginia Clean Economy Act’s zero-carbon mandate." ... MORE:⬇️ jeffersonforum.org/before-re…

🚨BIGGEST COST DRIVER: Virginia Democrats Want to Talk About Rising Electric Bills, Just Not the Biggest Cost Driver More than half of Dominion Energy’s rate increases are coming from clean energy mandates in the Virginia Clean Economy Act. ... "[T]here is a glaring omission in Virginia’s new political conversation about electric bills: What has actually driven the energy price increases?" "Between June 2022 and June 2026, the monthly bill for a typical Dominion Energy Virginia residential customer using 1,000 kilowatt-hours increased from about $127 to roughly $176 — an increase of approximately $49, or 39 percent." "A closer look at Dominion’s rates finds that $27, or over half of that increase, is in the clean-energy/Virginia Clean Economy Act (VCEA)-related category. This includes offshore wind, solar, storage and renewable-energy compliance. Distribution increased by $19, fuel and energy by $12 and transmission by $5, while declining legacy-generation and environmental costs offset part of those increases." "But the point remains: VCEA-related and clean energy costs have been the largest contributor to the recent increase in residential bills. That deserves as much attention at an 'energy cost' summit as data centers." ... MORE:⬇️ virginiafreepress.com/virgin…