VA-Attorney General: Herring down by 219 with 100% of votes counted

[brooklynite]

http://electionresults.virginia.gov/resultsSW.aspx?type=SWR&map=CTY

[uponit7771]

1. Still sounds like recount area no? Either way the GOP will "find" 500 votes somewhere and pay no

... cost for it

[FSogol]

2. The absentee and provisional ballots still need to be counted and that is our only hope.

The recount only confirms the precinct totals, don't expect it to change much.

[Kelvin Mace]

4. Generally, recounts tend to favor the Dems

The DNC should fight this tooth and nail.

[FSogol]

6. Not Virginia's recount. Creigh Deeds lost by under 600 votes and the recount

only changed about 24 votes. VA doesn't recount everything, they just re-certify the totals for each area.

The absentee ballots (especially in Norfolk and Fairfax) should favor us, so the is hope.

[Kelvin Mace]

7. I did say "tend to favor"

Locales with TS voting systems (no physical ballot) are a problem since all they do to recount is check the same total that could be completely wrong. All the more reason to fight for OpScan.

[FSogol]

9. VA doesn't recount everything and will not recount paper ballots where they exist.

They just re-certify the totals for each area.

[Kelvin Mace]

10. Bad law needs changing

In NC we changed the law to require random audits of paper ballots and paper audit logs of TS systems. If there is a discrepancy, paper beats electrons, unless fraud can be shown on the paper count.

[FSogol]

11. Agreed. n/t

[bluestate10]

3. Has provisional ballots been counted yet?

I would guess that provisional ballots would favor the Democrat given active voter suppression happening in Virginia. Folks, we fucking see it again. If any person that was put out by Virginia republican assaults on personal freedom for the last four years didn't vote, they may get the AG they deserve. Fortunately the two top spots are owned by Democrats and hopefully the Virginia assembly is less red, because Virginians will need that is the republican wins the AG seat. Expect republicans to go to court in an attempt to prevent provisional ballots from being counted.

[winter is coming]

23. I doubt any of them will be counted before Friday afternoon, at the earliest.

A voter will have until noon on the Friday following the election to deliver a copy of the identification to the local electoral board. Voters may submit a copy of their ID I doubt via fax, email, in-person submission, or through USPS or commercial delivery service. Please note that the copy of the ID must be delivered to the electoral board by noon on Friday, or the provisional ballot cannot be counted. A Friday postmark will not be sufficient if the copy of the ID is not delivered to the electoral board by noon on Friday.

http://www.sbe.virginia.gov/votinginperson.html

Given the number of voters recently struck from the rolls, I suspect the provisional ballots will favor Dem candidates. DUers with RL or Facebook friends in Virginia might want to remind people that provisional voting's not done until you follow up with proof of ID and it has to be there by Friday.

[JudyM]

5. Looks like about 20,000 more voters cast ballots for governor than A.G.

We need to do a better job of emphasizing the importance of a full-ticket vote in our GOTV efforts.

Plus here in NoVA (highest dem population in the state) I kept telling folks who took only a dem sample ballot (many people take both a rep and dem sample ballot) to call their friends because it was going to be close. It stumps me why this isn't part of the instruction we give to everyone who volunteers to hand out out our sample ballots, it's so simple.

[Ranchemp.]

8. Latest results.

http://electionresults.virginia.gov/resultsSW.aspx?type=SWR&map=CTY

Herring now down by 690 votes.

[Pryderi]

13. If Obenshain wins, how long before he starts going after McAuliffe? n/t

[Ranchemp.]

14. Shit, shit, shit.

Now Herring is down by 979 votes.
Hope to hell he can pull this out with a recount.

http://electionresults.virginia.gov/resultsSW.aspx?type=SWR&map=CTY

[Kingofalldems]

16. Yesterday was a great day for Democrats, don't you think?

MCauliffe overcame the evil NRA for a great victory. Flipped a governor to our side. Surely a bad day for republicans

[Ranchemp.]

17. You bet it was,

it was a repudiation of the teabaggers, we won both the VA. Governor and Lt. Governor's office, I was hoping for a clean sweep with the winning of the AG, but now, not so sure.
All in all though, a great day for us.

[Cognitive_Resonance]

15. It's likely to be many weeks before this race is resolved. The Herring team indicates they are going

to fight hard. Probably going to be decided by the provisional ballots.

[JudyM]

18. Still a moving target, but herring just pulled ahead by a hair

bumming all day till it just changed:

Candidate Votes Percent

REP Party Mark D. Obenshain 1,100,798 49.89%

DEM Party Mark R. Herring 1,100,830 49.89%

Write-in 4,973 0.23%

Total Votes 2,206,601

[StevieM]

20. Damn, it looks like there was an error in Prince William County

I think the race is still leaning to Obershain. We will need the provisional ballots to win.

[greyl]

19. Your headline is misleading.

There are still more votes to count.

[muriel_volestrangler]

21. Do we know what is changing the results through the day?

Is it provisional votes somewhere? Looking at the spreadsheet from that site, I've looked at about 10 counties so far, and they've had 1 or 2 provisional votes at most in each. Are they correcting earlier mistakes? Absentee votes being added? (I looked earlier, and all the counties I saw had significant numbers already, though I didn't save what they were).

[winter is coming]

22. Apparently, as they canvass the votes, they're discovering errors.

I've been following https://twitter.com/Redistrict, which seems to be doing a good job reporting on all the ups and downs.

latest tweet:

Bottom line: Herring (D) likely still down somewhere in the 700-800 vote vicinity. But that's more doable than 1,189.

[muriel_volestrangler]

24. Recount can't even be requested until November 25h

Under Virginia law, it's up to the loser to ask for a recount – there are no automatic recounts in Virginia. The request can't be made until after the board certifies the results, which won't happen until Nov. 25.
...
In a recount, all paper ballots are counted by hand. Printouts from touch-screen machines are reviewed and checked against the certified totals. If the printouts aren't clear, or if the court asks, officials can rerun the printout or examine the counters in the machine.

Optical scan ballots are re-run through a tabulator, and any that can't be read are hand counted. Ballots where people voted for too many candidates or where they didn't vote for any candidate aren't counted.

The recount does not consider challenges to a voter's eligibility and does not consider absentee or provisional ballots the electoral board ruled were invalid.

http://www.dailypress.com/news/politics/dp-nws-recount-1106-20131106,0,7350310.story