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Recount turns control of Va. Senate to Democrats
WTOP ^ | 1/27/2014 | Max Smith

Posted on 01/28/2014 10:08:07 AM PST by LonelyCon

Democrats will take control of the Virginia Senate now that a recount in Hampton Roads has found Lynwood Lewis the winner of a special election.

Lewis, who until now has served in the House of Delegates, beat Republican Wayne Coleman by 11 votes out of 23,000 votes cast.

The State Board of Elections says the final totals are 10,203 votes for Lewis to 10,192 votes for Coleman in the district that covers Accomack, Mathews and Northampton counties and the cities of Norfolk and Virginia Beach.

Coleman has called Lewis to concede the race.

Lewis had been initially declared the winner of the Jan. 7 special election by just nine votes.

When Lewis is sworn in, it will create an even 20-20 split between Republicans and Democrats in the Senate. Democrats have the tie-breaking vote thanks to Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam, whose Senate seat Lewis will fill.

Republicans had control of the chamber during the last two years due to the tie- breaking vote of then-Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling.

The GOP has controlled the Senate since inauguration day on Jan. 11 because Northam and new Attorney General Mark Herring had to resign their Senate seats to take statewide office.

Democrat Jennifer Wexton has already been sworn into Herring's seat representing parts of Loudoun and Fairfax counties.

Lewis joining the Senate will not change any of the votes that have been taken so far this session while Republicans have been in control.


TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: byhookorbycrook; cucinelli; democrats; democratscandals; franken; fraud; howtostealanelection; mcauliffe; recount; senate; va2013; vageneralassembly; virginia; votefraud
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1 posted on 01/28/2014 10:08:07 AM PST by LonelyCon
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To: LonelyCon

Isn’t it funny how democrats always seem to win those recounts?


2 posted on 01/28/2014 10:09:10 AM PST by MNnice
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To: MNnice

Keep recounting until the lib wins.


3 posted on 01/28/2014 10:10:49 AM PST by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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To: LonelyCon

Virginia is toast.


4 posted on 01/28/2014 10:11:45 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: MNnice

I was going to point that out myself, and ALWAYS after a long recount where several hundred more ballots are “found”, all overwhelmingly for the Democrat. . .


5 posted on 01/28/2014 10:11:45 AM PST by Salgak (http://catalogoftehburningstoopid.blogspot.com 100% all-natural snark !)
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To: LonelyCon

That is a close count!


6 posted on 01/28/2014 10:12:00 AM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'Any path to US citizenship for illegals HERE is a special path to it ')
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To: LonelyCon

Certainly the Republicans can find a trunk full of lost ballots in their cars some where? They can always pull a Frankel on them. No???


7 posted on 01/28/2014 10:13:40 AM PST by Bringbackthedraft (Remember Ty Woods? Glenn Doherty ? Forgot already?)
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To: sickoflibs

Republicans should demand another one and use the same tactics.


8 posted on 01/28/2014 10:13:47 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: LonelyCon

Republicans not only have to win, they have to win elections by a margin so great that a recount won’t find enough votes to turn the election.


9 posted on 01/28/2014 10:13:55 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: sickoflibs

Doesn’t matter, to the Rats it’s still a “Mandate”, and they will carry on as if it were, and the Republicans will acquiesce as usual.


10 posted on 01/28/2014 10:14:07 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: LonelyCon

Just shows the difference a few (bags of uncounted fake) votes can make


11 posted on 01/28/2014 10:14:17 AM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: MNnice
“Let me tell you about Florida politicians. I make them out of whole cloth, just like a tailor makes a suit. I get their name in the newspaper. I get them some publicity and get them on the ballot. Then after the election, we count the votes. And if they don't turn out right, we recount them. And recount them again. Until they do.”

Edward G Robinson. “ Key Largo”

12 posted on 01/28/2014 10:16:22 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: dfwgator

I agree, Virginia is lost, and (for now) I live there. NC is looking better and better.


13 posted on 01/28/2014 10:16:41 AM PST by tgusa (gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger .......)
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To: LonelyCon

McCain called and suggested they have co-chairs on all of the committees. /s


14 posted on 01/28/2014 10:17:13 AM PST by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: LonelyCon; windcliff; stylecouncilor
Rocco Runs It Down
15 posted on 01/28/2014 10:18:42 AM PST by onedoug
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To: LonelyCon
“Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.” ― Joseph Stalin
16 posted on 01/28/2014 10:19:19 AM PST by Red Badger (Proud member of the Zeta Omicron Tau Fraternity since 2004...................)
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To: NFHale
Republicans should demand another one and use the same tactics.

Republican are a bunch of chicken $h!7 cowards (for the most part)

17 posted on 01/28/2014 10:19:55 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Vaquero

Democrats triumph when Americans do nothing...


18 posted on 01/28/2014 10:21:23 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: LonelyCon; GeronL; Revolting cat!
We are told how rare Rat vote fraud is. That voter ID can't change an election. 2 dozen ballots is chicken scratch to Democrat thugs.


19 posted on 01/28/2014 10:21:37 AM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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To: tgusa

The list of “safe” states shrinks daily. NC is in transition too. It was an Obama state not too long ago.

I am thinking that Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, and Utah might be the only “safe” states around.

Texas is putting up a good fight, but I am concerned about the eventual disposition of this state as well.


20 posted on 01/28/2014 10:22:13 AM PST by 3Fingas (Sons and Daughters for Freedom and Rededication to the Principles of the U.S. Constitution...)
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