VOTING IS TODAY (6/20!), Meet the Candidates

Vote any time from 6am-7pm at your (maybe new as of May 1) local polling place; find where to go here (and you can still register same-day!). If you have any questions about voting or your voting status, call the City of Charlottesville Registrar at 434-970-3250 (Albemarle readers should call the County Registrar at 434-972-4173).

Here are the candidates running in all three Democratic Primary races (see a sample ballot here):

(vote for only 1)

• Sally Lindquist Hudson (sallyforvirginia.com) — overview info

• Robert Creigh Deeds (senatordeeds.com) — overview info

(vote for only 1)

• Bellamy Warren Brown (bellamybrownfordelegate.com) —overview info (partial)

• Katrina Elizabeth Callsen (katrinacallsen.com) — overview info

• David M. Norris (votefordave.org) — overview info

(3 seats, vote for no more than 3)

• Natalie Oschrin (nat4cville.com) — overview info

• Robert F. Fenwick Jr. — overview info pending from candidate

• Michael Keith Payne (https://michaelpayneforcville.org) —overview info

• John Lloyd Snook Jr. (lloydsnookforcouncil.com) — overview info pending from candidate

• Dashad Lorenzo Cooper (dashadcooper.com) — overview info

• Thanks to everyone who’s taken part in the process — candidates, campaign staff members and volunteers, Election Board members and election officials/volunteer poll workers, donors, the Registrar’s Office, and (most important) the voters. As Democrats and democrats (capital and small “d”), we care that American and Virginia elections are fair, efficient, transparent, and accessible to all our citizens!

• This has already been an exciting election (historically high early voting!) due to the hard work all of our excellent Democratic candidates have put in; they’ve all made us proud and are to be celebrated! Please show consideration and empathy to all the candidates and their staff members and supporters, regardless of who you supported; we need unity for future contests starting with the November general election against our Republican opponents!

• In that vein, some local Dems have organized a Primary Day watch party and invite all the campaigns to join in; it will start at 7pm when the polls close (cash bar, with some live music and limited appetizers provided) at Rapture on the Downtown Mall.