by wwrkds at wwrkds
The RPV and candidates were made aware of this information at the time of its discovery (~Nov 8th), but I specifically held off on publishing this information publicly until the candidates who wanted to contest or perform recounts had a chance to do so and that process was completed.
The Daily Absentee List (DAL) is a view of the status of Absentee and Early Vote ballots that is maintained by the Virginia Department of Elections and is available to qualified individuals, campaigns and organizations doing Get-Out-The-Vote (GOTV) efforts, etc. It is continuously updated over the course of an election, and is useful for tracking the number of Early and Absentee votes and their status as the early voting period is underway. Note that the DAL only tracks the status of early and absentee ballots, not the vote totals.
Through VA RPV candidates and PAC’s that I volunteer with, I was provided access to the DAL data for the 2021 election and I ran daily analysis and statistics on the DAL throughout the early voting period. That access came in the form of a link to a downloadable comma-seperated-value (csv) file from the Dept of Elections website. I downloaded snapshots of the DAL repeatedly over the election period, and I archived and time-stamped all of those downloads.
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