Democrats Might Have Won the Last Big Election of 2013 With a Newly Discovered Voting Machine [View all]

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Source: Slate

The vote count in Virginia's race for attorney general was expected to flip tomorrow, when provisional ballots from Fairfax County were counted again. As of this morning, Republican candidate Mark Obenshain was up by 15 votes statewide, out of more than 2 million cast; Democrats hoped that a break to their candidate, Northern Virginia's own Mark Herring, would allow him to take the lead.

But they didn't expect the reversal to happen today. Six days after the election, a precinct in the city of Richmond—Democratic turf—reported that not all of its machines had been counted. The Cook Political Report's Dave Wasserman was among the reporters watching that count.


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In very-heavily Democratic-leaning Richmond City, 190 votes found to have not been added to the tally split 153-37 and flipped the margin from -17 to +99 for Dem Herring.

#RVA Richmond review nets 132 vote gain for @SenMarkHerring, results in 115 vote unofficial lead in Virginia AG race #VaAG

In Dem stronghold Fairfax County, the as-yet uncounted provisional ballots should extend Herrings lead further out of reach of a recount altering the outcome. Much of Virginia voted touch screen, so recounting will have a small impact on the numbers.

Log of developments since Thursday's "smoking gun" here:
#VAAG Race - Multiple Dem sources - "smoking gun" something is up Fairfax Co = 3,000 missing votes
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024000076