The voting schedule for the Nov. 3 general election is set in Arlington.
Early voting will begin on Friday, Sept. 18 at the Ellen M. Bozman Government Center, and will continue through Oct. 31. Starting Saturday, Oct. 17, satellite voting will take place at the Walter Reed and Langston-Brown community centers.
Voting hours will vary by day of the week, and will include two days of Sunday voting.
“This seems fine,” Electoral Board secretary Dominick Schirripa said in reviewing the schedule put forward by elections director Gretchen Reinemeyer and staff on Tuesday.
Voters also will be able to cast ballots in official dropboxes, which will be open after early voting begins.
Oct. 23 is the voter-registration deadline, and also the deadline to request a mail ballot.
Candidates for office and other political organizations will be allowed to start placing signs in medians on Saturday, Sept. 19.
All signs in public rights-of-way from the Aug. 4 primary should be gone at this point, Reinemeyer said, referencing county zoning regulations. The deadline to remove them was earlier this week.
“If your sign is up, it should not be up,” she said.
On the ballot Nov. 3 are races for U.S. Senate, 8th District U.S. House of Representatives, County Board, School Board and treasurer (special election). Three state constitutional amendments and five local bond referendums also will be on the ballot.
At the Aug. 11 meeting, Electoral Board members certified local results for the Aug. 4 primaries. In local races, the certified results from Arlington were:
- U.S. House of Representatives, 8th District (Democratic): Don Beyer, 15,515; Mo Seifeldein, 4,196; Adam Dunigan, 2,364; Michael Duffin, 727; Lorena Bruner, 594
- County Board (Democratic): Matt de Ferranti, 12,569; Julie Farnam, 6,346; James DeVita, 3,941
The Aug. 11 Electoral Board meeting also involved the appointment of 46 new officers of elections, who will be eligible to work the polls through February 2029.
Electoral Board members also signed off on the annual inspection of Arlington’s 54 polling places to ensure they complied with federal Americans with Disabilities Act accessibility provisions.
“We will send this off to the state,” Electoral Board chair Kim Phillip said of the certification.
In other election news:
Dunigan suggests he’ll run again in 2028: One of the candidates who lost to Rep. Don Beyer (D-8) in the Aug. 4 Democratic primary appears to be gearing up to run in 2028.
“We will enthusiastically support Congressman Beyer on Nov. 3. But Nov. 4, we take the field again. And this time, we play to win,” Adam Dunigan said in a post-election email to supporters.
“The establishment is on notice, and they will either see the light or feel the heat,” Dunigan said.
Dunigan received 9.1% of the vote in the 8th District Democratic primary, running behind Beyer (67.1%) and Seifeldein (18%) in the five-way race.
He is the second candidate running in 2026 who has teed up a 2028 run. Tony Sabio, the Republican nominee taking on Beyer, has said he plans to run again in 2028 if he does not win in November.
Bishop opposes two constitutional referendums: The Roman Catholic Diocese of Arlington is urging parishioners to oppose two of the three state constitutional amendments on the Nov. 3 ballot.
Bishop Michael Burbidge wants local Catholics to vote against proposed amendments that would enshrine abortion access and same-sex marriage into the Virginia constitution.
The diocese has established a website to publicize its positions.
The Virginia Catholic Conference is also opposing the two amendments. That organization is supporting the third referendum, which would restore voting rights automatically to most prisoners who have completed their sentences.
The Diocese of Arlington, which in 1974 was carved out of the Diocese of Richmond, is home to about 432,700 registered Catholics in 70 parishes.
