Early voting begins in two special elections for Virginia House, Senate
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RICHMOND — Early voting got underway Wednesday in two special elections with long-shot potential to upend Democrats’ narrow control of the state House and Senate — and boost Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s prospects for legislative wins in his final year in office. Voters in Loudoun County are choosing two new members of the General Assembly in the Jan. 7 election They are filling a pair of seats that opened up when state Sen. Suhas Subramanyam (D-Loudoun) won election to Congress on Nov. 5 and a sitting delegate resigned to run...
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