Arlington embraces ranked-choice voting for primaries and more Va. headlines – Virginia Mercury

• Arlington County’s Board voted unanimously to adopt ranked-choice voting in future primary elections for board seats.—Patch

• “A purge that affected nearly 3,400 Virginia voters was the result of poor communication and software that was improperly updated, according to a new report from the Virginia Office of the Inspector General.”—VPM News

• A vote recount finalized Republican Kim Taylor as the winner of the 82nd House District race. Just 53 votes put Taylor ahead of her opponent, Democrat Kimberly Pope Adams, who had requested the recount.—WRIC

• A federal judge reversed course to allow the removal of a memorial honoring Confederate soldiers from Arlington National Cemetery a day after issuing an injunction to halt it. The memorial includes “a Black woman depicted as ‘Mammy’ holding what is said to be the child of a white officer, and an enslaved man following his owner to war.”—Associated Press

• An American Society of Civil Engineers report found public drinking water infrastructure in Virginia and across the nation are increasingly being polluted by substances like fertilizer and food additives, the latter of which are effectively non-biodegradable.—WVTF