Virginia Ballot Questions

The Democratic Party of my county did a service to all voters by mailing out a voting guide. They highlighted which candidates they want you to support, as well as how to vote on ballot questions: Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, and Yes.

The two statewide questions pertain to the Virginia Constitution, and my roommates and I puzzled at what they were intended to accomplish. A little research explained things:

Ballot question one reads:

Shall Section 6 of Article II of the Constitution of Virginia be amended to provide that members of the United States House of Representatives, Virginia Senate, and House of Delegates who are serving in the year following a new United States Census, when decennial redistricting is required, shall complete their terms of office and continue to represent the district from which they were elected for that term of office and that any vacancy during the term shall be filled from the same district that elected the member whose term is being filled?

The explanation online said this question came up because of confusion in recent years over how appointees shall be selected for districts in transition. An apolitical, technical item, I'll vote Yes on this.

Question 2 is probably equally uncontroversial, but a little darker in its political roots. It provides to extend from three to six the list of successors to the office of Governor. This would provide for more order in a terrorist attack that prevented the Virginia House of Delegates from meeting. It's harmless, of course, unless such an attack happens, but the fact that people in Richmond worked hard enough to put this on a statewide ballot shows how powerful fear has become. This was never enacted during the Cold War, which, in my opinion, had a much greater chance of annihilating an entire state government. My guess is that is being used by the Commonwealth's Republican leadership as a scare tactic; otherwise it would have no fuel.