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sandensea

(21,635 posts)
Thu Nov 9, 2017, 06:15 PM Nov 2017

Vote canvass changes lead in critical Virginia House race

A Republican delegate has picked up a crucial 100 votes during a canvass of election returns in a race that is critical to determining which party will control the chamber.

Fairfax County elections board spokeswoman Lisa Connors said Republican Delegate Tim Hugo picked up the votes during a Wednesday canvass of election returns.

Connors said the total called in by phone was 100 less than those reflected on the voting machines.

Those votes flip a 68-vote deficit for Hugo to a 32-vote lead.

The Associated Press has not called the race.

At: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/vote-canvass-changes-lead-in-critical-virginia-house-race/2017/11/08/54b83aa2-c4a4-11e7-9922-4151f5ca6168_story.html?utm_term=.083ae23d09bf
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Vote canvass changes lead in critical Virginia House race (Original Post) sandensea Nov 2017 OP
Recount that mess Tiggeroshii Nov 2017 #1
You better believe it. sandensea Nov 2017 #2
That article has old totals. Yonnie3 Nov 2017 #3
In other words, the voting machines "found" even more Hugo votes. sandensea Nov 2017 #4
Totals have always moved around - phoned in numbers are often screwed up. Yonnie3 Nov 2017 #5
Good. They had better. sandensea Nov 2017 #6
Thank God there is a paper trail in VA YessirAtsaFact Nov 2017 #9
exactly even 100 ? drray23 Nov 2017 #7
It has changed a little since then - but this still looks like edited tabulation machine totals. sandensea Nov 2017 #8

sandensea

(21,635 posts)
2. You better believe it.
Thu Nov 9, 2017, 06:18 PM
Nov 2017

A 100-vote error - exactly? And with the GOP's recent history of stealing elections?

That dog don't hunt.

Yonnie3

(17,441 posts)
3. That article has old totals.
Thu Nov 9, 2017, 06:34 PM
Nov 2017

As of noon today on the Commonwealth of Virginia's website a difference of 115 votes is shown which is 0.38%. A recount is allowed if the difference is 1% or less. Provisional ballots have not yet been counted. The canvasses and provisional ballots should be complete by Tuesday, 11/14.

Donte T. Tanner Democratic 14,988 49.73%
Timothy D. "Tim" Hugo Republican 15,103 50.11%

sandensea

(21,635 posts)
4. In other words, the voting machines "found" even more Hugo votes.
Thu Nov 9, 2017, 06:38 PM
Nov 2017

That seems to be where the discrepancy lies: the precincts reported their respective totals, and this new canvass is coughing up more Hugo votes than the precincts originally reported.

Tanner's people had better make sure the ballots are individually counted before this thing is certified.

Yonnie3

(17,441 posts)
5. Totals have always moved around - phoned in numbers are often screwed up.
Thu Nov 9, 2017, 06:49 PM
Nov 2017

Totals have changed in both directions and will again as provisional ballots are verified.

A recount occurs after the vote is certified, which will begin 11/20. All paper ballots will be recounted per Virginia law. This is so much better than when they just added up the totals from the electronic machines again.

This race will be recounted and the recount will be watched closely.

sandensea

(21,635 posts)
6. Good. They had better.
Thu Nov 9, 2017, 06:52 PM
Nov 2017

This has Siegelman-Riley written all over it. Beware Southern good ole boys claiming a "computer glitch."

drray23

(7,629 posts)
7. exactly even 100 ?
Thu Nov 9, 2017, 08:03 PM
Nov 2017

That sounds highly suspicious. I guess its possible but the odds are already low that the votes called in by phones were wrong, on top of that it happens to be exactly 100.

sandensea

(21,635 posts)
8. It has changed a little since then - but this still looks like edited tabulation machine totals.
Thu Nov 9, 2017, 08:11 PM
Nov 2017

Think Siegelman-Riley in Alabama, when the tabulator totals from one (heavily Republican) county were suddenly found to be "off" by 10,000 or so votes in Riley's favor - and by a teenage girl volunteer no less.

She and Judge Moore must have "met."

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