Voting rights

Re “Voting referendum” (Your Views, Sept. 14): The recent letter to the editor recounting the recent history of Virginia Beach’s election system left out the key role state Del. Kelly Convirs-Fowler has played in reducing our voting rights.

In 2021, without consulting Virginia Beach city leaders or citizens, she co-sponsored the bill that disallows at-large voting in districts, eliminating six of the 11 votes for City Council and School Board our citizens have always enjoyed. Now she is among those leading the effort to take away three more of those votes with the 10-1 voting system, leaving Virginia Beach voters with the least number of votes possible, two votes out of 11 every four years. This totally disenfranchises voters from any meaningful participation in their c

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