Why voting irregularities could swing the Virginia AG recount to Republicans
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There were three major irregularities that could swing the outcome — two of which occurred in Fairfax County.
First, Fairfax kept polls open for three extra days for provisional ballots. It is the policy of the Board of Elections that Virginia voters who aren’t on the rolls may cast a provisional ballot. But they must then prove their eligibility between Election Day and the following Friday at 5 p.m. (Fairfax kept the process open through Tuesday of the following week.)
Obenshain came into Fairfax up by about 60,000 votes, and Fairfax “just happened to be the one county where Mark Obenshain lost by 60,000 votes,” said the source.
The second problem is that every ballot is supposed to be filed with the clerk of the court by the day after the election. And all were, except in Fairfax county. “And again, it is Fairfax that keeps finding ballots,” says a source who is an expert on Virginia election law. “No one knows the chain of custody now.”
The third problem: Each year the state board of elections provides each locality with a list of voters to purge from their lists (this is to remove the names of people who moved, died, became felons, etc., in the last year or so.) Most counties largely complied with that directive, but some Democratic bastions — like the cities of Hampton and Charlottesville — allowed these names to remain on the books.
More than 1,800 names that should have been purged in these two cities alone, weren’t. That constitutes more than 10 times the current margin of difference between the candidates. |
