One of the things that our office does is we work closely with our partners, emergency management partners, police, law enforcement, the city attorney and try and be mindful about where things are at the national level, where things are at the state level, to try and make sure we have protections and precautionary measures in place.

So, you know, I think there's a multitude of issues that were prepared for potentially occurring.

Certainly that's something that we've heard about.

That's something that is being discussed about.

And so by the very nature of it, it's certainly something that we're keeping an eye on and thinking about.

But, you know, I would say that, you know, again, this hasn't been something that's happened to date, and certainly we're hopeful that it doesn't come to fruition.

Either for this election or a future one.

We do require a voter ID.

It does not have to be a photo ID.

There are a — theres a long list of IDs that are acceptable, including a Virginia driver's license, passports, of course, there are student IDs that are — that a person can use.

You can also use a utility bill and several other items in there.

There's generally something that somebody has that they can use to show their ID.

There's a great list on the Department of Elections website.

That's at elections.virginia.gov If you go under the ‘Casting a Ballot section of that, there's a list there of all of those IDs.

I think the social science literature indicates that there are negligible amounts of mail-in ballot fraud.

Again, this is a method that I think is time-tested, that has been used for some time.

The vast majority of states, including Virginia, allow for people to be able to return their mail ballot, you know, without needing an excuse to be able to do so.

But every state in the union allows at least some voters to be able to do that.

And frankly, you know, we have elected officials from the local level, all the way up to the national level, at the highest reaches who make use of this process.

So, again, I think this is a process that's a reliable one.

And while, you know, while there are negligible amounts of fraud that exists.

I want to be clear in saying that we have plenty of safeguards in place both to identify and deal with those vulnerabilities, and take action if something were to arise.

Provisional ballot.

We use those when we can't determine whether or not youre eligible at a polling place or at an early voting site.

There can be many reasons why that might be.

Perhaps, you've forgotten your ID.

You can sign a statement confirming that you are the voter, but also, some people don't want to do that, they'd rather provide their ID.

So if they want to vote at that time then you would we would provide you with a provisional ballot.

It doesn't get counted on Election Day or during the early voting period.

It goes into a separate envelope and then after the election is over, folks here in my office, me and my staff, we would look at those, determine whether or not you should be eligible to vote.

Once that is determined, then the electoral board meets as part of their canvass meeting in a provisional ballot meeting.

They we present evidence to them on whether a provisional ballot should count or not, and they make a determination whether or not to count that ballot.