Suspicious Private Mailbox Operation in Arlington:
Another Electoral Board Member, Another Bogus Explanation
by Virginia Voter Roll Maintenance Movement
August 11, 2026
On June 22, 2026, VVRMM spoke to Dominick Schirripa (R), Secretary of the Democrat-controlled Arlington VA Electoral Board, about a private mailbox operation at a UPS store at 1405 S. Fern Street in Arlington, VA. Dozens of Arlington voters are registered through this address (as of August 2025).
VVRMM previously reported likely problems at this address including potential duplicate records, voters not in protected status using private mailboxes to register to vote, and election mail (including ballots) being sent there without legal predicate. VVRMM also reported that it had tried to work with the local Registrar Gretchen Reinemeyer on this, but only got obfuscation and apparent falsehoods from her.
In VVRMM’s second story about 1405 S. Fern Street, VVRMM reported that it had apprised the Arlington Electoral Board of the situation, but the board showed no interest and failed to take action.
While VVRMM appreciates Schirripa’s willingness to speak to VVRMM in June, the conversation on June 22nd settled nothing and raised additional questions.
Schirripa backed up the claim of the local Registrar Gretchen Reinemeyer that she worked on this address in response to VVRMM’s alert and made changes to the voter rolls. However, VVRMM has not been provided with proof this is indeed the case.
Schirripa went on to say the Registrar’s work on this address included sending query notices to the addresses in question. Some failed to respond and were moved to inactive status on the voter rolls, he claimed. If this is indeed the case, VVRMM has won a small victory for election integrity, wrested from recalcitrant elections officials.
However, election mail might not ever reach the person if, for example, no box number was stated in the registration record. Some of the records at 1405 S. Fern Street were in fact missing a box number, as VVRMM determined in August 2025.
Schirripa then provided an explanation for the situation that showed he doesn’t understand the law.
Schirripa said people in protected status under Virginia law who are allowed to register to vote without showing their residential address in the voter rolls (law enforcement, active duty military, victims of domestic violence, homeless, etc.) are required by regulation to use U.S. Postal Service P.O. boxes. They may not use private mailboxes to register to vote, Schirripa said.
This is just plain wrong.
Virginia Code § 24.2-418(B) states registrants in protected status shall provide “a post office box address located within the Commonwealth” for the purpose of public records. Arguably, this means a post office box from the U.S. Postal Service, but it’s ambiguous.
However, the Virginia Department of Elections has interpreted § 24.2-418(B) to countenance the use of “P.O. Box or private mailbox (PMB) addresses” and “commercial mailboxes” in its current Handbook at Chapter 6 pages 8 and 29 (August 2025). One could argue the Department went beyond the statute, but the matter has not been litigated.
Arlington Electoral Board member Schirripa is completely mistaken in his belief USPS post office boxes are required. He went on to make a preposterous claim, based on his flawed understanding of the law.
The only reason election mail (including ballots) would be sent to a private mailbox is if the registrant claimed they live there, he said.
He said election officials are constrained by law to show an address in the voter rolls for homeless people who register to vote. VVRMM knows from news accounts that this is handled in some states by attributing an address such as ‘lives under Freedman’s Bridge’ to the homeless registrant.
But in Arlington, election officials don’t do that. According to Schirrpa, they assign addresses that actually exist to homeless registrants who have no fixed address. Schirripa claimed as a theoretical matter that all of the 1405 S. Fern Street addresses must have been assigned by the Registrar to homeless registrants since, according to his flawed understanding, no one in protected status can use a private mailbox. However, he did not say this is actually the case at 1405 S. Fern Street.
But let’s play Schirripa’s conjecture out to the end:
Schirripa did not say whether the homeless registrants are informed they have been assigned a private mailbox. Even if they are informed, no homeless person is likely to able to afford the $35 a month it takes to rent a private mailbox at 1405 S. Fern Street. It’s not like they can simply walk up to the counter and demand mail from an assigned mailbox the store never rented to them.
Confused yet? None of this makes any sense. Why would the Registrar assign addresses that cost money to homeless registrants, then send election mail there (including ballots) knowing full well it is improbable, to say the least, the mail would ever be picked up? One would hope the election mail would be returned to the elections office when addressed to people who are not the store’s customers, but it is certainly possible it is not, leaving stray ballots at risk of being intercepted by bad actors. The entire exercise of sending election mail (including ballots) to a private mailbox that homeless registrants haven’t paid for, can’t access, and may not even know about, would be completely crazy. Which is why Schirripa’s claim that 100 percent of the 1405 S. Fern Street addresses on the voter rolls must be for the homeless is preposterous.
What the heck is really going on here? Who is using these private mailboxes for voter registration and election mail and getting away with it? It’s not supposed to be your average voter with a residential address. It’s not likely to be the homeless, as argued above. A former Arlington Electoral Board member (also Republican) previously told VVRMM that 100 percent of the 1405 S. Fern Street addresses on the rolls are voters in protected status (which would include the ones with no box number!), a preposterous claim in itself. He also said the Registrar makes up addresses for her friends, as VVRMM previously reported.
The whole situation is bizarre.
Schirripa doesn’t seem to know the true facts of the situation and he certainly doesn’t understand the law. The Registrar won’t explain what is going on, and the Electoral Board refuses to investigate.
Feeling better about our elections yet?
VVRMM encourages election integrity activists to assert their right of public inspection of the voter rolls and start looking at private mailbox operations all over the state. There’s some funny business going on here.
Another Electoral Board Member, Another Bogus Explanation
by Virginia Voter Roll Maintenance Movement
August 11, 2026
On June 22, 2026, VVRMM spoke to Dominick Schirripa (R), Secretary of the Democrat-controlled Arlington VA Electoral Board, about a private mailbox operation at a UPS store at 1405 S. Fern Street in Arlington, VA. Dozens of Arlington voters are registered through this address (as of August 2025).
VVRMM previously reported likely problems at this address including potential duplicate records, voters not in protected status using private mailboxes to register to vote, and election mail (including ballots) being sent there without legal predicate. VVRMM also reported that it had tried to work with the local Registrar Gretchen Reinemeyer on this, but only got obfuscation and apparent falsehoods from her.
In VVRMM’s second story about 1405 S. Fern Street, VVRMM reported that it had apprised the Arlington Electoral Board of the situation, but the board showed no interest and failed to take action.
While VVRMM appreciates Schirripa’s willingness to speak to VVRMM in June, the conversation on June 22nd settled nothing and raised additional questions.
Schirripa backed up the claim of the local Registrar Gretchen Reinemeyer that she worked on this address in response to VVRMM’s alert and made changes to the voter rolls. However, VVRMM has not been provided with proof this is indeed the case.
Schirripa went on to say the Registrar’s work on this address included sending query notices to the addresses in question. Some failed to respond and were moved to inactive status on the voter rolls, he claimed. If this is indeed the case, VVRMM has won a small victory for election integrity, wrested from recalcitrant elections officials.
However, election mail might not ever reach the person if, for example, no box number was stated in the registration record. Some of the records at 1405 S. Fern Street were in fact missing a box number, as VVRMM determined in August 2025.
Schirripa then provided an explanation for the situation that showed he doesn’t understand the law.
Schirripa said people in protected status under Virginia law who are allowed to register to vote without showing their residential address in the voter rolls (law enforcement, active duty military, victims of domestic violence, homeless, etc.) are required by regulation to use U.S. Postal Service P.O. boxes. They may not use private mailboxes to register to vote, Schirripa said.
This is just plain wrong.
Virginia Code § 24.2-418(B) states registrants in protected status shall provide “a post office box address located within the Commonwealth” for the purpose of public records. Arguably, this means a post office box from the U.S. Postal Service, but it’s ambiguous.
However, the Virginia Department of Elections has interpreted § 24.2-418(B) to countenance the use of “P.O. Box or private mailbox (PMB) addresses” and “commercial mailboxes” in its current Handbook at Chapter 6 pages 8 and 29 (August 2025). One could argue the Department went beyond the statute, but the matter has not been litigated.
Arlington Electoral Board member Schirripa is completely mistaken in his belief USPS post office boxes are required. He went on to make a preposterous claim, based on his flawed understanding of the law.
The only reason election mail (including ballots) would be sent to a private mailbox is if the registrant claimed they live there, he said.
He said election officials are constrained by law to show an address in the voter rolls for homeless people who register to vote. VVRMM knows from news accounts that this is handled in some states by attributing an address such as ‘lives under Freedman’s Bridge’ to the homeless registrant.
But in Arlington, election officials don’t do that. According to Schirrpa, they assign addresses that actually exist to homeless registrants who have no fixed address. Schirripa claimed as a theoretical matter that all of the 1405 S. Fern Street addresses must have been assigned by the Registrar to homeless registrants since, according to his flawed understanding, no one in protected status can use a private mailbox. However, he did not say this is actually the case at 1405 S. Fern Street.
But let’s play Schirripa’s conjecture out to the end:
Schirripa did not say whether the homeless registrants are informed they have been assigned a private mailbox. Even if they are informed, no homeless person is likely to able to afford the $35 a month it takes to rent a private mailbox at 1405 S. Fern Street. It’s not like they can simply walk up to the counter and demand mail from an assigned mailbox the store never rented to them.
Confused yet? None of this makes any sense. Why would the Registrar assign addresses that cost money to homeless registrants, then send election mail there (including ballots) knowing full well it is improbable, to say the least, the mail would ever be picked up? One would hope the election mail would be returned to the elections office when addressed to people who are not the store’s customers, but it is certainly possible it is not, leaving stray ballots at risk of being intercepted by bad actors. The entire exercise of sending election mail (including ballots) to a private mailbox that homeless registrants haven’t paid for, can’t access, and may not even know about, would be completely crazy. Which is why Schirripa’s claim that 100 percent of the 1405 S. Fern Street addresses on the voter rolls must be for the homeless is preposterous.
What the heck is really going on here? Who is using these private mailboxes for voter registration and election mail and getting away with it? It’s not supposed to be your average voter with a residential address. It’s not likely to be the homeless, as argued above. A former Arlington Electoral Board member (also Republican) previously told VVRMM that 100 percent of the 1405 S. Fern Street addresses on the rolls are voters in protected status (which would include the ones with no box number!), a preposterous claim in itself. He also said the Registrar makes up addresses for her friends, as VVRMM previously reported.
The whole situation is bizarre.
Schirripa doesn’t seem to know the true facts of the situation and he certainly doesn’t understand the law. The Registrar won’t explain what is going on, and the Electoral Board refuses to investigate.
Feeling better about our elections yet?
VVRMM encourages election integrity activists to assert their right of public inspection of the voter rolls and start looking at private mailbox operations all over the state. There’s some funny business going on here.