Former Virginia Elections Registrar Fails in Political Bias Suit

A former general registrar of elections failed to convince a jury that two Republican members of the Lynchburg, Va., electoral board, intent on pushing the “Big Lie” that the defeat of Donald Trump for president in 2020 was fraudulent, declined to reappoint her due to her political affiliation.

Virginia electoral boards have one Democratic member and one Republican member under state law, and a third member of the sitting governor’s party. Christine Gibbons said she was unanimously appointed as registrar in 2018, when two Democrats served on the board. But in 2023, the two Republicans on the board elected to ...