In the last two hours, Herring has gained 926 and Obenshein has lost 275. What happened?
Obenshein is back up by 726 votes. An error in a precinct in PWC gave Herring more votes than he really had.
Brian Schoeneman - Secretary, Fairfax County Electoral Board
“What we’re doing right now is called a canvas of the votes. Mistakes can be made, so what we do after election day...we spend a couple days counting the votes, making sure everything is correct, double-checking and triple-checking all of our work so that when we certify the election we’re certifying the actual, final, and accurate results.”
“That process typically takes in Fairfax County about four or five days. We are anticipating being finished by Saturday.”
“Once that process is done we’ll certify the results, send those results to the state board of elections. The state board begins their canvas of the results on November 25th, and we have no idea how long that can take.”
“Reality is, Fairfax County is the largest jurisdiction in the Commonwealth of Virginia. We have about three times as many precincts as our nearest jurisdiction. So we have to be accurate and we have to be careful, and that takes time.”
“So we’re looking forward to doing a very thorough and efficient canvas and being out of here hopefully some time on Saturday.”
From a video linked on his Twitter page. . .
https://twitter.com/BrianSchoeneman