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bpj62

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4. Optiocal Scanner\Paper ballot

Reply to FSogol (Original post)

Wed Dec 18, 2013, 01:26 PM

Dec 2013

Virginia went back to the scanning the paper ballot. In Fairfax which is the largest jurisdiction in terms of votes, everything had to be delivered to the county admin building before the votes could be counted. The boy scouts helped unload all of the sealed ballot boxes from throughout the county and that took quite some time. That is why the Election was so close for so long because Fairfax was the last to report. I was pleasantly surprised to see that we have gone to optical scanning with the paper ballot as a back up. it will eliminate election fraud and it will cause the loser to think twice before filing a legal challenge after the recount.

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Herring's Lead now at 810 votes with less than 120 votes challenged. [View all] FSogol Dec 2013 OP

Why were these votes not counted on the night of the election? Very strange..n/t monmouth3 Dec 2013 #1

The ballot is filled out by hand (coloring in the circles next to the name) FSogol Dec 2013 #2

Thank you..n/t monmouth3 Dec 2013 #3

Optiocal Scanner\Paper ballot bpj62 Dec 2013 #4

Heard on Andrea Mitchell show Obenshain's conceded! elleng Dec 2013 #5