A Northern Virginia county acknowledged it underreported President Joe Biden’s margin of victory over Donald Trump there in the 2020 presidential election by about 4,000 votes, the first detailed accounting of errors that came to light in 2022 as part of a criminal case.
The admission Thursday from the Prince William County Office of Elections comes a week after prosecutors from the Virginia Attorney General’s office dropped charges against the county’s former registrar, Michele White.
Counts were also off in races for the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives, though by lesser margins.
In a statement, the county’s current registrar, Eric Olsen, emphasized that the mistakes did not come close to affecting the outcome of any race and “did not consistently favor one party or candidate but were likely due to a lack of proper planning, a difficult election environment, and human error.”
So the election officials in that state are all going to federal prison right?
We’re gonna SLAM them, and they will be officially ON N O T I C E
Lock them up! Lock them up!
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Can someone tell me please why we allow each State to set up its own set of rules/procedures for how federally elected positions are voted on and counted?
Edit: thank you all for the education. I had actually meant my comment more rhetorically than literally (I’m aware of how the Constitution works, etc.), to spur discussion about changing it, but glad that there was some good educational information in the the replies.
Virginia has scanned physical ballots. There is no possible way the count was 4000 votes off without foul play. Audits in the state routinely report zero percent error rates between hand counts and machine counts.
It’s actually quite notable that they dropped these charges. Youngkin is clearly trying to protect someone or something from sunlight here.
Stop the steal! /s
3rd party 2024, end the MIC by refusing to pick the better of 2 evils
That is the most absurdly naive and dishonest idea ever.
Who we voting for? Claudia De la Cruz?
Name the third party candidate that has a credible chance of winning, please.