Herring (D) wins Virginia attorney general race, elections board announces

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13. Alexandria expects to recount attorney general votes by hand

Alexandria expects to recount attorney general votes by hand
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/alexandria-may-have-to-recount-ballots-by-hand/2013/11/27/46f8b76c-577e-11e3-835d-e7173847c7cc_story.html

By Patricia Sullivan, Published: November 27

To execute a recount in the Virginia attorney general’s race, Alexandria elections officials think they will have to tally by hand all the ballots in that race — 40,817 of them.

Registrar Tom Parkins said the Hart InterCivic eScan scanner that is used to record paper ballots in Alexandria can’t be programmed to recount the attorney general’s race without also recounting the other races on the ballot. Virginia law mandates that only the contested race be recounted.

“Because of the technology we use, I don’t believe we can isolate the attorney general race,” Parkins said. “If that’s the case, we’ll have to recount manually.”