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The Virginia Board of Health voted on Oct. 24, 2016, to rescind unconstitutional sham restrictions on women’s health centers that threatened to cut off access to safe and legal abortion in the commonwealth. The vote was the culmination of a regulatory process initiated in 2014.
The ACLU of Virginia is pressing the state’s top election official to take immediate corrective action after the portal to register online to vote crashed for many users in the days leading up to Monday’s original cutoff.
The following may be attributed to ACLU of Virginia Executive Director Claire Guthrie Gastañaga in response to the Supreme Court of Virginia's latest ruling with regard to Gov.