Posted on 11/02/2020 6:29:56 AM PST by Perseverando
ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - The Republican Party of Virginia filed a petition looking to compel the Roanoke County Registrar’s Office to follow proper election procedures regarding the pre-processing of absentee ballots on behalf of Roanoke County Republican Chairman Dan Webb in the Roanoke County Circuit Court.
Earlier this week Chairman Webb learned that the Roanoke County Registrar’s office had begun pre-processing over 9,000 returned absentee ballots without notifying the Roanoke County Republican Committee that this process had started.
This violates Va. Admin. Code 20-70-40 requiring the registrar provide sufficient notice to the political parties to enable them to have authorized representatives present to observe absentee ballot pre-processing.
According to Chairman Webb, “The failure of the Roanoke County Registrar to provide proper notice to the Roanoke County Republican Party that absentee ballot pre-processing had begun is startling, casting a shadow over the credibility of the Registrar’s Office. The fact that the Roanoke County Democratic Party Chairwoman’s husband was present at the start of pre-processing has even greater implications than simple neglect of following the letter of the law inside the Registrar’s Office.
“It’s my hope that the Court will compel the Registrar’s Office to strictly adhere to the letter of the law so that the citizens of Roanoke County can be assured absentee ballots are handled with care and proper diligence in accord with the laws of Virginia.”
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Just a slight oversight, I'm sure..........................not..................
McAwful institutionalized vote fraud in Virginia.
Just the tip of the iceberg. This whole election is going to be a cluster.
80,000 convicts given their voting rights in 2016... How many more in 2020?
Violation of the law. Criminal penalties?
Even if the they win, what happens to the over 9000 that have been “pre-processed” by the democrats??
No, silly. They have D’s behind their names.
The 9,000 counted votes cannot be uncounted and recounted. What is done is done according to my reports.
How many were “incorrectly” counted or not counted is another question that only the (Democrat) General Registrar and her staff know for sure.
According to the video at the source there is a lawsuit against the Lynchburg City Registrar by the Lynchburg City Republican Committee for some similar failure to follow Virginia election laws.
"But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?"
"Yes, yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the [Donkey]."
Hitchhiker's Guide ...1979, R.I.P. Douglas Adams.
I'm puzzled. Recounts happen all the time, when ordered. I work for a local Board of Elections in New York. Each ballot still exists after the day is done--on a card, which the voter himself has marked and fed into a machine that scans and retains it. And the machine and its location are recorded with each batch of ballots, each of which is numbered and tracked.
The point is that ballots can be examined and recounted and compared with the count on the machine tape.
Are you saying Va. is in another universe, for some unusual reason?
It is not the counting of accepted ballots that is the issue, it is the pre-counting handling of the absentee ballots. I presume the signature match goes against the registration data. Signature looks different? What is the registration? “D” Count it. “R” Reject it. Down the line races not voted? Fill in the oval for the “D” candidate. Ballot voted straight “R”? replace it with one of these, shred the original. Lots can be done when the process is unobserved.
And note to Chairman Webb, why, oh why, did you not have someone standing by at the registrar’s office? It’s not like you didn’t know the processing was going to happen today.
In the old South Bronx, a friend worked for the Board of Elections as a young man--this was when it was all Irish. The electorate and the local board were all mobbed-up-union Democrats. But by law, you need both a Democrat and Republican sign-off on everything you do. So every election cycle, a couple of the guys would register Republican for the day, to make sure any action was approved, dirty tricks included.
The ballots we get today are all coded with a number, torn out of a book that retains the matching numbered stub. In an investigation, not just the number, but the tear itself would have to match. So you might have to print duplicates of each ballot book for use if needed. . .
In New York State (of all places), all those ballots would be invalid. Shred 'em, Dan-o.
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