The teenage son of Virginia Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin (R) tried to vote twice in the state’s election on Tuesday.
Fairfax County election officials told the Washington Post that the 17-year-old tried to vote at the Hickory precinct polling place at Great Falls Library even though the location is not the polling place assigned to his home address.
He was turned away as election officials determine he was not eligible to cast a ballot due to his age. Voters must be at least 18 years of age to vote in Virginia.
“This morning, November 5, 2021, the General Registrar was made aware of concerns that a [teen] male attempted on two occasions to vote on election day. The young man presented identification but was ineligible to be registered due to his age and was not permitted to vote. The man was given a registration form and encouraged to register for future elections,” the office of elections said in a statement.
Scott Konopasek, the director of elections in Fairfax County, Virginia said the county is investigating but, “based upon information available to me now, it appears that he committed no election offense as defined in Chapter 10 of the Elections Code.”
Still, the news comes as Republicans, led by former President Donald Trump expressed doubt in the Virginia’s electoral system leading up to the elections on Tuesday.
“I am not a believer in the integrity of Virginia’s elections, lots of bad things went on and are going on. The way you beat it is to flood the system and get out and vote,” Trump wrote in a statement on Monday morning.
It also comes at a time when Republicans across the country are passing restrictive voting laws, claiming without evidence that Democrats engaged in massive voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election that ultimately led to Trump’s defeat.
