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‘It 11 take more than a full year,” Foster said. “To analyze a trend, to say whether or not it’s working, give us three to five years.”
Foster said he was not sure how well Virginia hunters have been complying with the blaze-orange law, but another state game official, Charles Hunter, said that after 12 people were cited statewide on opening day, there have been no more reports of violations.
Hunters who break the law are subject to a $25 fine, but perhaps a bigger deterrent is the possibility that officials can revoke a hunter’s license for 12 months if two violations occur, Foster said.
He said that of last year’s 13 hunting fatalities in Virginia, nine occurred when hunters mistook fellow sportsmen for game.
“If people don’t comply, we’re going to continue having accidents,” Foster said.
Absentee ballots probed
RICHMOND — Virginia’s top election official has called for revising the state’s law on absentee ballots in the wake of voting irregularities in several counties during the Nov. 3 election.
‘There is a tremendous opportunity for abuse,” Susan Fitz-Hugh, executive secretary of the state Board of Elections, said Nov. 18. “The law needs to be tightened up.”
The irregularities, which have prompted an investigation in southwest Virginia’s Wise County, included the mailing of large numbers of absentee ballots to individuals other than the actual voters. In some cases, Fitz-Hugh said, people handling the ballots included local law enforcement officers, party officials and candidates for office.
State law allows voters to designate on an absentee-ballot application that they wish to have the ballot sent to an address other than
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