The Richmond Times-Dispatch (Va.) offers this report, which begins: “Mark D. Tate, a Middleburg businessman seeking the Republican nomination to run for the 27th District state Senate seat, has been indicted on 11 counts of election fraud and perjury.The indictment, handed up by a Loudoun County grand jury Monday and made public yesterday, lists two counts of election fraud and nine perjury counts. The felony charges relate to state-required campaign-finance reports filed this year and during a campaign in 2003, said Loudoun Commonwealth’s Attorney James E. Plowman. Tate faces Jill Holtzman Vogel of Warrenton in a primary nominating contest. The indictments come three weeks before the June 12 primary.”