Vote canvass changes lead in critical Virginia House race

[sandensea]

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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Something don't smell right - and it ain't my onion fricassee neither.

[Tiggeroshii]

1. Recount that mess

[sandensea]

2. You better believe it.

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

That dog don't hunt.

[Yonnie3]

3. That article has old totals.

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]

4. In other words, the voting machines "found" even more Hugo votes.

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]

5. Totals have always moved around - phoned in numbers are often screwed up.

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]

6. Good. They had better.

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

[YessirAtsaFact]

9. Thank God there is a paper trail in VA

I still have nightmares about 2001

[drray23]

7. exactly even 100 ?

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]

8. It has changed a little since then - but this still looks like edited tabulation machine totals.

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."