BREAKING: Watchdog—Possible Voting Law Violations at Care Facilities Owned by Virginia Dem Senator
Hotline tip suggests staff members charged with caring for mentally impaired individuals are exploiting them for political purposes.
Election integrity activists with the Center for Vulnerable Voters are calling on Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares to investigate allegations that a state senator’s healthcare business is exploiting mentally impaired adults in violation of state law.
The center, a project of the American Constitutional Rights Union (ACRU), received a tip claiming staff members with Lucas Lodge, LLC—owned by Virginia State Sen. L. Louise Lucas (D–Chesapeake)—have been illegally registering people in their care to vote.
The allegation comes just days before early voting opens in Virginia’s hotly contested race for governor and control of the House of Delegates.
Virginia law clearly states: “No person adjudicated to be mentally incompetent shall be qualified to vote.” The tip came in through the Center for Vulnerable Voters Vote Fraud Hotline.
In response, the civil liberties group sent a letter addressed to Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares, dated Sept. 15, 2025, asking the attorney general to make a formal inquiry into the allegations.
Restoration News contacted Sen. Lucas’ Richmond office asking if she was aware of the allegations. Her office has declined to comment as of publication.
Lucas is a Democrat who’s represents Virginia’s 18th Senate District, which includes parts of Chesapeake and Portsmouth. She first took office in January 2020 and serves as the Virginia Senate’s President pro tempore.
The ACRU letter identifies eight different locations for Lucas Lodge LLC locations, all of them in or near her district. The lodge manages residential homes, day support services, and transportation services for “vulnerable citizens,” according to the letter.
Restoration News attempted to reach several locations for Lucas Lodge, but could not get a live person on the phone. Some of the listed numbers were also disconnected.
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Exploiting Our Most Vulnerable
In February, Restoration News reported on the Center for Vulnerable Voters’ discovery that Wisconsin officials may have illegally helped coma patients register to vote in at least one nursing home in 2024.
That followed on a previous Center for Vulnerable Voters report that 91 Wisconsin nursing homes reported 95–100% voter turnout in the 2020 election in key Democratic cities, including Madison.
This sort of voter fraud happens frequently. The center cites the example of a worker at the Father Murray Nursing Center in Macomb County, Michigan, who was jailed in 2022 for forging signatures on absentee ballot applications.
In describing its mission, ACRU informs the attorney general that it “works to ensure those who wish to exercise their right to vote are not prevented from doing so by either impediments or obstacles nefariously placed in their path.” The letter goes on to say ACRU also works to “ensure that vulnerable voters are not victims of coercion or vote theft.”
Early voting in Virginia begins today for the November 4 general election.
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