Bills to incorporate a 10-district voting system used since 2022 in Virginia Beach into the city charter cleared both chambers in the General Assembly this week.
Steps remain to codify the 10-1 system, as it is known, but a change that has stalled in the past now faces better odds in Richmond.
The bills next face a process in which chambers consider what the other has advanced. If signed by Gov. Abigail Spanberger, a change would update the city’s charter to enact a system imposed in 2021 by a federal judge who found the city’s former at-large system diluted minority voting strength…