Error May Have Cost Democrats Pivotal Virginia Race

[RandySF]

“Last year’s race for state delegate in Newport News went down in Virginia history for its razor-thin margin. Republican David Yancey won on Election Day by 10 votes; Democrat Shelly Simonds beat him by a single vote in a recount. Then, a judicial panel declared a tie, so officials picked a name out of a bowl to determine a winner, and it was Yancey,” the Washington Post reports.

“Now, a review of voter registration records and district maps by The Washington Post has found more than two dozen voters — enough to swing the outcome of that race — cast ballots in the wrong district, because of errors by local elections officials. The misassigned voters lived in a predominantly African American precinct that heavily favored Democrats in the fall.”


https://politicalwire.com/2018/05/14/error-may-have-cost-democrats-pivotal-race-in-virginia/

[lark]

1. Damn, I knew the repugs cheated.

Random chance doesn't mean rw'ers always win, however much they try to make it appear that way by their rampant cheating.

[Bettie]

2. I still doubt that the Democrat's name

was even on any of the papers they drew from.

Of course they cheated. They always cheat.

[lark]

3. I thought the same thing.

They are all cheats, liars and hypocrites and now most are also traitors.

[mythology]

7. You do realize that Democrats control the state board of elections right?

About 6000 people were set in the wrong precinct across the state out of 5.5 million voters. About 2200 of those voted. That's a .1% error rate.

It's not a conspiracy. It's a fluke due to the closeness.

[dalton99a]

4. "because of errors by local elections officials"

Sure enough

[appalachiablue]

5. That loss was so disappointing & significant for Va., and now this sh*t..

[WhiteTara]

6. error? nah, they did that on purpose.

[IronLionZion]

8. Our party needs to do better to discover and fix these problems

it's going to keep happening everywhere.

For example, I live in the bluest of blue cities and registered to vote when I got my license. Somehow, they had no record of my registration when I showed up to my voting place a year later. Thankfully we have same day registration, but it was still frustrating and disappointing.

I bet a lot of voters get discouraged by mistakes like this, which can happen easily in over crowded and underfunded neighborhoods.

[mountain grammy]

15. Yes we do..

Every election is critical.

[Dopers_Greed]

9. Is it an "error" if it's by design?

[aeromanKC]

10. Fine. FIX the error.

Allow those voters who were incorrectly directed to the wrong voting precinct to vote in their correct precinct. This is not rocket science people.

[KPN]

11. Error? Suspicious if you ask me.

[UCmeNdc]

12. Error my Ass!

Planned voter misinformation!

[iluvtennis]

14. Agree

[zentrum]

13. Liars. Cheats. Sociopaths. Racists.

Enemies of Democracy.

[Honeycombe8]

16. That was no error, if you ask me. Fraud. nt