Virginia early voting bills stopped in subcommittee

Bills that would loosen restrictions on where and when a person can vote failed to move past a Virginia House subcommittee Monday morning, scuttling a key part of Gov. Tim Kaine’s legislative agenda in the last session of his term.

A six-legislator panel within the House Privileges and Elections Committee voted 4-2 to table a bill to allow “no-excuse” in-person absentee voting, and another that would let any registered voter cast an early ballot between three and 14 days before an election. The votes followed party lines.