Looking through our files, we came across a number of photos at polling places. Above, Virginians took part in a historic election on Nov. 4, 1969, electing the state’s first Republican governor, A. Linwood Holton, since 1886. Gloucester and Mathews counties both chose Holton over Democratic candidate William C. Battle. In Hayes Store precinct in Gloucester, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Weiss were among 774 persons casting ballots, assisted by, from left, election officials Mrs. Marvin L. Brown, Mrs. Milton T. Harris and William H. Rowe. Below, Laura Ward checks in with election officials at the Piankatank precinct in Mathews on Nov. 8, 1977, in which Virginia voters chose governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general and delegates. Officials at the precinct, located in the American Legion post home at Hudgins, were from left Dorothy Foster, Melvin German, Frances McPherson and Jeannette Haufler....