NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — Virginia’s top elections official says an unknown number of voters who may have cast a ballot in a tied Virginia House race that was decided by drawing lots were assigned to the wrong district.
The Daily Press reports a state Department of Elections review of registrations after the November election found a discrepancy between some Newport News voters’ addresses and the House district in which they were recorded as living.
Department Commissioner Chris Piper said the discrepancy has been corrected. He didn’t give a number of voters possibly affected.
The city’s electoral board chairman says he and the board are investigating.
The 94th District race between Republican David Yancey and Democrat Shelly Simonds was ultimately decided by a drawing of lots that captured national attention. Yancey eventually won the election.
And the outcome was the Republican “won” the election?
This sounds very carefully worded. Did someone in the local elections office put them in the wrong district by ignoring the boundaries, or did they commit voter fraud?
Igor and Boris are getting sloppy.
This is exactly the kind of thing that they could have done with the kind of access reported for some states…
If it is voter fraud and it alters the outcome, then shouldn’t Yancy’s win be overturned? What’s the recourse for the Dem?