Fairfax Co. Absentee Votes Tighten Up Va. AG Race
Source: Channel 4 in Washington, DC
Provisional Vote Totals Will Be Announced Tuesday
Saturday, Nov 9, 2013 | Updated 4:10 PM EST
Newly counted absentee ballots in Virginia’s 8th District could swing the election of Attorney General to Democrat Mark Herring. ... Brian Schoenenman, a Republican official on the Fairfax County Electoral Board, said via Twitter that a new vote count for the 8th District had 5,137 votes for Herring, 2,039 votes for Republican Mark Obenshain, and ten write-in votes, a change of 1,132 votes in favor of Herring. Schoeneman made the announcement after the board met early Saturday morning to investigate an apparent error in absentee ballot returns.
According to results posted on the Virginia Board of Election page, Obenshain was ahead by 1,262 votes, but those numbers did not include the new results from Fairfax County or any provisional votes cast on Election Day.
The meeting centered on discussion of the results of two optical scan machine tape records – one that had been included in the results and one that had not. The election staff was instructed to complete the canvass of votes and present their findings.Those findings are the basis of Schoenenman’s announcement.
Schoeneman said a new ruling on Friday from the State Board of Elections requires voters who cast provisional ballots to be present to have them counted. Because of that ruling, he said all provisional vote totals in Fairfax County won't be announced until Tuesday.
Read more: http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/New-Absentee-Votes-Could-Swing-Va-AG-Race-to-Herring-231287821.html
Virginia Election Results
http://www.sbe.virginia.gov/ElectionResults.html
You can go from that page to a .pdf site, updated daily; a worksheet site, updated hourly; or here:
November 5th, 2013 Unofficial Election Results
http://electionresults.virginia.gov/
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Ben Tribbett @notlarrysabato
15-4 herring with richmond provisionals. Newest statewide count 1,103,399 for Obenshain, 1,103,377 for Herring. 22 votes.
https://twitter.com/notlarrysabato/status/399287251425058816
Herring is now only 22 votes behind.
Fairfax has 494 provisional ballots that will be counted on Tuesday.
Monday is a holiday.
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For new updates see links below...
Wasserman: https://twitter.com/Redistrict
Tribbet: https://twitter.com/notlarrysabato/status/399287251425058816
Updates in Comments section in DU thread here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024000076
And updates are also on Twitter hash tag: #VAAG
We're going to be calling them all and if necessary, picking them up and driving them in to have their votes counted. This new in-person rule is positively insane.
We also found an irregularity at one precinct in my district: more people signed in to vote than votes that were cast 
so that should work in Herring's favor, too, even though there weren't a lot of those.
Obenshain.must.not.win.
Here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1081
Good luck tomorrow - I am so hoping that Herring wins this race!
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The instruction led the Republican-majority Fairfax County Electoral Board to extend their deadline for voters to come in and plead their case until Tuesday. On Saturday, according to Tribbett, they voted "2-0 with 1 abstaining to condemn (the) state board of elections ruling prohibiting legal rep for voters not here."
The action to allow voters more time to argue for inclusion of their provisional ballots also resulted in plaudits for Fairfax County Electoral Board member Brian Schoeneman --- a Republican and former Bush Administration staffer --- from normally ideological opponents, and also condemnation from at least one of his fellow Republicans, who asked: "Why is Brian Schoeneman, who purports to be a Republican, helping Democrats by extending this deadline?"
For his part, Schoeneman took to Twitter to explain what was going on and to respond to questions about the ruling. He tried to calm concerns by asking that folks "don't blow the SBE issue out of proportion. This is simply a disagreement between lawyers. It has little impact on voters."
"To be clear, this wasn't an SBE change. They believe this has always been their policy," he said, adding "This was reminder guidance to localities. Not every locality had our past practice."
That practice, he explained, is "to allow voters to present us with evidence as to why they voted provisionals. It's a courtesy to them." He tweeted late Saturday that provisional voters "don't 'need' to come in. They may if they want. They are given a sheet when they vote provisional explaining it." Schoeneman went on to vow, "we will review every ballot on a case by case basis and decide each ballot, regardless of whether the voter appears."
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http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10363
But of course to be on the safe side everyone should go and make sure their ballot is counted
