In another edition of our long-running series, “At Least They’re Not Your Legislator,” we take you to Virginia, where officials are still trying to figure out results in a couple of key races that could decide whether Democrats take control of the State House for the first time in 20 years.
As the Associated Press reports, this is a mess:
Lawsuits, threats and recriminations are flying as the state wrestles with the tricky question of what to do about the 147 voters in and around a crucial district who were given the wrong ballots…
…The Republicans have gone from a commanding 66-34 majority in the House to an apparent 51-49 lead, with GOP candidates clinging to extraordinarily slim leads in three districts. (There were no elections this year for the state Senate, where Republicans hold a majority by just one seat.)
In one of the hard-fought House districts, the 28th, in the Fredericksburg area about 50 miles south of Washington, Republican Bob Thomas leads Democrat Joshua Cole by just 82 votes. But the state elections commission recently found 147 voters in the district and neighboring ones cast their ballots in the wrong district.
Exactly why they were assigned to the wrong districts is unclear, as the registrar responsible died in April. [Pols emphasis] But Elections Commissioner Edgardo Cortes said it was probably an error by a registrar working with limited resources and antiquated equipment. He said Virginia has underfunded its election offices around the state and similar problems could exist in other districts.
Democrats have a deadline later this week to file recount requests in two other close races. It remains possible that the end result could be a 50-50 split in the State House.
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Maybe Nutlid can weigh in on Dems picking up 15 seats in the VA-HoD with being in spitting distance in 3 others since there is a post about it
Motor Anus:
Too many illegal immigrants voted in VA. Plus the governor allowed all those convicted felony (who no doubt were Democrats) to vote.
Stay the course, Ed Gillespie. Someday they will thank you.
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The vote has been certified, which gives Democrats the go-ahead to call for a recount. Presumably the losing party would then sue over the ballot issue, which could be cured by allowing the affected voters to cast a vote in the race, or if that's deemed too manipulable, a re-vote.
What a mess.
On the other hand, you could surf over to Wisconsin, where an ongoing attempt to audit the 2016 election finds that more votes were not counted by the machines – or the canvassers after-the-fact – than provided the margin of victory for Trump. By a lot.