NORFOLK, Va. — Virginia voters lined up at polling locations across Hampton Roads on Friday. Early voting officially began, marking the official start of the 2025 election season, 45 days before Election Day.

In Norfolk, approximately 250 residents cast their ballots on the first day of early voting, according to Stephanie Iles, Director of Elections and General Registrar for the city.

"We were busy double-checking our voter files to make sure everybody who had submitted applications online or by mail that we had received, or even through third-party groups, we were getting all those people registered," Iles said. "Making sure all of our ballots, we’re required to be sent out, that had requested absentee ballots have to be out by today.”

Norfolk voter Jeffery Seate was among those who t

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