As an elected official in the nation's 10th largest school system, I want to ensure that there is both election integrity and voter integrity in races not only in Fairfax County, but throughout the Commonwealth.

There should be no compromise on the the Virginia Constitution's Article 2 (Section 2):  http://constitution.legis.virginia.gov/constitution.htm#2S1

"The contest, for ages, has been to rescue Liberty from the grasp of executive power."
Daniel Webster (to the Senate, 1834)

Further excerpt from Webster's speech:

"But, sir, if the people have a right to discuss the official conduct of the Executive, so have their representatives.

We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of liberty. Is he to be blind, though visible danger approaches? Is he to be deaf, though sounds of peril fill the air? Is he to be dumb, while a thousand duties impel him to raise the cry of alarm? Is he not, rather, to catch the lowest whisper which breathes intention or purpose of encroachment on the public liberties, and to give his voice breath and utterance at the first appearance of danger? Is not his eye to traverse the whole horizon, with the keen and eager vision of an unhooded hawk, detecting, through all disguises, every enemy advancing, in any form, towards the citadel which he guards?

Sir, this watchfulness for public liberty, this duty of foreseeing danger and proclaiming it, this promptitude and boldness in resisting attacks on the constitution from any quarter, this defence of established landmarks, this fearless resistance of whatever would transcend or remove them, all belong to the representative character, are interwoven with its very nature, and of which it cannot be deprived, without converting an active, intelligent, faithful agent of the people into an unresisting and passive instrument of power.

A representative body which gives up these rights and duties, gives itself up. It is a representative body no longer. It has broken the tie between itself and its constituents, and henceforth is fit only to be regarded as an inert, self-sacrificed mass, from which all appropriate principle of vitality has departed forever."