--- title: Virginia Granted Brief Voter-Registration Deadline Extension description: Virginia residents now have until the end of Friday to register to vote after computer glitches kept some from signing up earlier this week. canonical: https://time.com/4539504/virginia-voter-registration-deadline/ author: Melissa Chan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-20T20:49:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-31T10:18:27.834Z article:section: Politics og:title: A Federal Judge Extended Virginia's Voter-Registration Deadline Through Friday og:description: Virginia residents now have until the end of Friday to register to vote og:url: https://time.com/4539504/virginia-voter-registration-deadline/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc59e30381c314025/6988aaf3f887dc4f47e97e36/vote.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Hispanic voter voting in polling place og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: A Federal Judge Extended Virginia's Voter-Registration Deadline Through Friday twitter:description: Virginia residents now have until the end of Friday to register to vote twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc59e30381c314025/6988aaf3f887dc4f47e97e36/vote.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # A Federal Judge Extended Virginia's Voter-Registration Deadline Through Friday  by [Melissa Chan](https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Oct 20, 2016 8:49 PM UTC  Hispanic voter voting in polling place Hispanic voter voting in polling placeGetty Images  by [Melissa Chan](https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Oct 20, 2016 8:49 PM UTC Virginia residents [now have until the end of Friday](https://apnews.com/e8bbe8b1d3eb4f1aa958c062faedbcfc) to register to vote after computer glitches kept some from successfully signing up earlier this week. A federal judge on Thursday extended the registration deadline to 11:59 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 21, to make up for lost time, [officials said](http://www.oag.state.va.us/). Some Virginians experienced technical difficulties while trying to register to vote on the [state’s website](https://vote.elections.virginia.gov/VoterInformation) nearing the original Monday deadline, according to the Associated Press. Judge Claude M. Hilton of U.S. District Court in Alexandria said voter registration is to resume immediately. > [](https://twitter.com/AGMarkHerring/status/789142091980996608) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4539504/virginia-voter-registration-deadline/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4539504/virginia-voter-registration-deadline/"},"headline":"A Federal Judge Extended Virginia's Voter-Registration Deadline Through Friday","datePublished":"2016-10-20T20:49:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T10:18:27.834Z","description":"Computer glitches prevented some from registering earlier this week","url":"https://time.com/4539504/virginia-voter-registration-deadline/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic","Virginia"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc59e30381c314025/6988aaf3f887dc4f47e97e36/vote.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Chan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc59e30381c314025/6988aaf3f887dc4f47e97e36/vote.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Hispanic voter voting in polling place","caption":"","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4539504/virginia-voter-registration-deadline/","name":"A Federal Judge Extended Virginia's Voter-Registration Deadline Through Friday"}}]}] ```