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Man who registered
voters for progressive
Virginia group charged
with fraud
By Justin Wm. Moyer October 28

A former Alexandria resident was charged Thursday with voter registration fraud after falsifying
applications while working for a local advocacy group, prosecutors said.
In the spring, Vafalay Massaquoi, 30, fabricated the applications while working for a group that
sought to register new voters, forging forms and inventing the names of applicants, the Alexandria
commonwealth’s attorney said in a statement.
The forms were filed with the Alexandria Office of the General Registrar, which alerted the
commonwealth’s attorney, the statement said. A warrant for Massaquoi’s arrest was issued in July,
but he had left the area and was not arrested until earlier this month in Philadelphia, according to the
statement.
Though prosecutors did not name the advocacy group Massaquoi worked for, New Virginia Majority,
whose website says it is “a powerful movement that transforms Virginia by organizing communities

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