Mark Cole
[2][self-published source] Cole describes himself as a fiscal and social conservative that supports individual rights while opposing tax increases.[10]Rob Boston of Americans United for Separation of Church and State said of this on MSNBC that "the sort of paranoid strain of thinking among these folks just—it advances to meet the new technology that we have.[13] It was widely reported that HB663 would require adults to inspect the genitals of children before they were allowed to enter the appropriate facilities, but this was dismissed by Snopes as a misleading interpretation of the bill's text,[14] which states that administrators "shall develop and implement policies that require every restroom ... that is designated for use by a specific gender to solely be used by individuals whose anatomical sex matches such gender designation.[15] In 2017, Cole sponsored House Bill 1598, which would require those registering to vote after January 1, 2018, for state and local elections to provide proof of citizenship.[16][17] In 2019, Cole sponsored an amendment to Virginia's Constitution (HJ615) [18] to establish a bipartisan commission to redraw legislative and congressional district lines after the national decennial census.Ronnie Campbell (R-Lexington), requesting “a stay of any designation of Presidential Electors from our state until such time as a comprehensive forensic audit of the November 3, 2020, election has taken place to determine the actual winner.”[26] On January 13, a Virginia Circuit Court issued a consent order agreeing with one of the major points of the letter, that the conduct of the 2020 election was contrary to Virginia law.