The Virginia Department of Elections (ELECT) discovered 149,000 more voter transactions that got stuck in an online system between the Department of Motor Vehicles and local registrars who needed to process them. The Monday announcement comes just over a week before Election Day, and after the same problem caused delays in processing 107,000 transactions, discovered […]
Traffic fatalities in Virginia rose 16 percent from 2019, to 2021, according to traffic research nonprofit TRIP, which reports that nationally, fatalities rose 19 percent during that same period. In 2021, 903 crashes occurred, resulting in 963 fatalities, up from 827 in 2019 and 847 in 2020, despite a decrease in total miles driven, according to DMV […]
Former Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles Commissioner Peter Lacy, was set to take a job leading Virginia’s Department of Motor Vehicles, before a newspaper’s reporting about allegations that the official had behaved inappropriately at work. The report comes from the IndyStar, which published an investigation that found Lacy “appeared intoxicated during an executive meeting with […]
A law set to take effect on July 1, 2023, will crackdown on “farm use” vehicle abusers. Currently, there are certain exemptions in place for farmers to use farm vehicles on state roads with minimum requirements. These are typically vehicles weighing less than 7,500 pounds and plan to be operating along a highway for no […]
Nearly 3000 people were incorrectly taxed by the Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles over the course of two years, as part of a state law that went into effect in July 2020. The “Highway Use Fee,” is a state tax that is intended to tax fuel-efficient and electronic vehicles to “ensure a more fair contribution […]
The legislation from Senator Bill Stanley would repeal the requirement that the driver’s license of a person convicted of any violation of the law – who fails or refuses to provide for immediate payment of fines or costs – be suspended by the state’s judicial system.
