Great coverage by WTOP’s Max Smith of the State Board of Elections meeting this morning. See some of his tweets, below. For more on the situation in HD-28, see my post here. As for HD-40 and HD-94, those currently stand (pending recounts) at Del. Tim Hugo (R) 15,110-Donte Tanner (D) 15,004; and Del. David Yancey (R) 11,601-Shelly Simonds (D) 11,591. The latter contest is most likely to “flip” to a Democratic win (and a possible 50-50 ties in the Virginia House of Delegates), since it’s within just 10 votes, but we’ll need to wait and see…
P.S. I’m told that a “contest” of an election only can happen after a recount. Ultimately, a “contest” apparently is decided by the House of Delegates, which until January 2018 remains 66-34 Republican. Hmmm….
#VaHouse: 2 races headed for recounts stay on track, but #HD28 not certified with significant ballot questions https://t.co/aZE8eEl8zX https://t.co/mtZwo96dyW
— Max Smith (@amaxsmith) November 20, 2017
ALERT: #Virginia State Board of Elections adjourns until Wednesday at TBD time, will not certify #HD28 or #HD88 races. #HD94, #HD40 can proceed to recounts now
— Max Smith (@amaxsmith) November 20, 2017
Republican Party of Virginia’s John Findlay says state only “conveniently” found voters in wrong place, calls this politically motivated somehow
— Max Smith (@amaxsmith) November 20, 2017
Rep from Va NAACP says concerned about election process here
— Max Smith (@amaxsmith) November 20, 2017
Now we have a public comment period – a Fredericksburg resident who lives on street impacted – says her street got #HD28 ballot but thinks should have been in #HD88
— Max Smith (@amaxsmith) November 20, 2017
MORE: Cortes: There is a potential there are MORE misassigned voters in Fredericksburg AND Stafford, but trying to sort out since usually local level action
— Max Smith (@amaxsmith) November 20, 2017
Cortes: Total of 83 voters in this street segment assigned to wrong #VAHouse district https://t.co/XJIC5jGTuB
— Max Smith (@amaxsmith) November 20, 2017
Charles Street in #Fxbg – last change wrongly assigned from #HD28 to #HD88 4/29/2016. Apparently by someone in Fredericksburg pic.twitter.com/bEkFEYy81K
— Max Smith (@amaxsmith) November 20, 2017
Here are the voters Cortes says are wrongly assigned – since “late April of 2016” #vagov pic.twitter.com/QLQUUInDCX
— Max Smith (@amaxsmith) November 20, 2017
Alcorn: A lawsuit is being filed shortly over #VaHouse district lines issue, want to give court up to 3 days to handle case, SBE can adjourn day to day to mid-week
— Max Smith (@amaxsmith) November 20, 2017
NEW: SBE Chair Alcorn says with threatened litigation over #HD28 and #HD88, moves to adjourn this certification, delay certifying those races
— Max Smith (@amaxsmith) November 20, 2017
SBE meeting to start shortly – City of #Fredericksburg, Cole campaign expected to address board in public comment https://t.co/XJIC5jGTuB
— Max Smith (@amaxsmith) November 20, 2017
P.S. Also check out these tweets by the AP’s Alan Suderman.
Va. Elections boss just said there were 83 voters wrongly assigned in a House district where the Republican is currently leading by 82 votes.
— Alan Suderman (@AlanSuderman) November 20, 2017
Now residents say number of missassigned votes could be higher, Republican Party exec calls this a “thinly veiled” attempt to steal election. We may be headed to hanging chad territory here with control of House up for grabs. https://t.co/rfKn5YbCGb
— Alan Suderman (@AlanSuderman) November 20, 2017
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