How sure are they and we that there is nor fraud in the vote? Fraudulent votes are picked up--with I'd guess a low efficiency--years later, but elections are never changed. Look at Al Franken, where recount after recount was done as new boxes of overlooked votes were found; or look at the 2012 Presidential election, where Philly had districts with over 100% turnout and not a single Romney vote. Is Virginia so pristine that fraud is unthinkable?
There were no precincts in philidelphia with more than 100% turnout. And there was no surprise in the precincts in which no romney votes were cast (these are small precincts).
It is unlikely you could find and catalog 160 cases of fraudulent voting.
I guess that there could have been cases of democrats filling out absentee ballots for old people or mentally ill people without their knowledge, but there would be little chance of actually catching and proving that type of subterfuge — unless you got lucky and turned someone who was responsible for running such a plan.
Here is how one type of plan could work to commit fraud in a Virginia election. We have provisional ballots, used if you don’t show up with your proper ID.
So, let’s suppose you think it is going to be a close race, and you know there are democrats who aren’t going to vote, because either they told you they were tired of the whole thing, or weren’t available.
So, you send your volunteers out to those precincts, and have them say they are these voters. But they don’t show ID, or sign anything proving they are the voters, they simply cast ballots.
Now, the election is really close. SO you go back to those democrats, and get them to show up with their ID, and “validate” their ballots.
This would technically work, unless we had pictures taken of the voters. But you couldn’t pull this off, because what ordinary voter is going to agree to go PRETEND they voted. But if they were in on the thing, it would work. However, if they were in on it, it would mean they DID have a right to vote, and simply couldn’t vote that day, and they SHOULD have done absentee.
So while in that case they are committing a crime, they really are voters who had a right and could have cast a valid ballot. I’m more interested in the fraud that casts ballots people did not have a right or an interest in casting.
The republicans are looking for fraud, or possible fraud, and if it is found then action will be warranted. I just don’t expect that. There was considerable focus on the provisional ballots (which was what put Herring over the top). But I haven’t read any indication that someone suspects those were fraudulent — it’s just that liberals tend to be stupid and can’t cast their ballots right or show up with the right identification.