Many voters will go to the polls Tuesday to select a candidate that they believe should be their political party’s candidate to run in the general election Nov. 6.
This is a dual primary, so there will be two elections simultaneously: one election for Democratic candidates running to contend for a Virginia House of Representatives seat, as well as an election for Republican candidates to run for Virginia’s U.S. Senate seat.
Voters can’t vote in both primaries. At their polling places, they’ll be asked whether they are voting in the Democratic or Republican primary and given that ballot. To see Montgomery County sample ballots, visit www.montgomerycountyva.gov/VoterNews/?FeedID=3115.
In Virginia’s hybrid primary system, voters do not have to be members of a party to vote in that party’s primary.
On Tuesday, two Democrats, Anthony J. Flaccavento and Justin D. Santopietro, will run in the primary to be chosen to challenge U.S. Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Va., in the 9th Congressional District. Incumbent Griffith came to office in 2010.
Three Republicans, Corey A. Stewart, Nick J. Freitas and E.W. Jackson are running to challenge Democrat Tim Kaine in the US Senate race.
Polls are open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Find your polling place at elections.virginia.gov or the Virginia Department of Elections website.
Virginia law requires all voters to provide an acceptable form of identification. However, those that arrive without an ID can vote using a provisional ballot and will have until noon the Friday after the election to deliver a copy of an ID to the electoral board for the vote will be counted.
For more information, contact the Montgomery County Voter Registrar, Connie Viar, at 540 382-5741, Tracy D. Howard, general registrar of voters in Radford at 540-267-3156 or the Virginia Department of Elections at 800-552-9745.
