The SSN story was Grifter Pundit trash.
That had NOTHING to do with ballots. It had to do with ballot applications. The moron class doesn’t know the difference, and the Grifter Pundit is counting on that fact.
24.2-701 of the Code of Virginia does require the following on Ballot Applications: “The applicant’s printed name and the last four digits of the applicant’s social security number. However, an applicant completing the application in person shall not be required to provide the last four digits of his social security number.”
The Problem with the Code of Virginia was that it was changed in 2020 and 24.2-706 and it now reads in part: “The completion and timely delivery of an application for an absentee ballot shall be construed to be an offer by the applicant to vote in the election. The general registrar shall note on each application received whether the applicant is or is not a registered voter. In reviewing the application for an absentee ballot, the general registrar shall not reject the application of any individual because of an error or omission on any record or paper relating to the application, if such error or omission is not material in determining whether such individual is qualified to vote absentee.”
Fairfax argued that if an application was missing the last 4 required under 701, 706 required them to use other sources to verify the application.
Whether you like the argument or not, the following GP rants are simply not true.
1. GP claims this involves all ballots in the State of Virginia. This is a lie. This only dealt with some Fairfax ballots. There are only 59K mail-in ballots this time, and not all of them lacked the last four.
2. There were 300K mail in ballots in 2020 from Fairfax. That’s a lie. There were 221,420.
In ALL of Virginia, 303K mail in ballots were returned this year. There were 1.02 MILLION of these ballots in 2020.
There are only 89K left, not “buckets” or “hundreds of thousands.”
Keep in mind folks, Terry is going to come out of the gate with a BIG lead. They are counting Early Vote FIRST.
The key will be the margin.
Trump won election day vote BIG in Virginia. The problem was that 2.8 million people voted early in 2020. More people voted early than voted on election day.
It’s down to 1.16 million early votes this year. There are probably 1.5 to 1.8 million election day votes this year. If Youngkin matches Trump’s ED margin, he can overcome a lead as high as 300K, but it would be a nail-biter. He would need to do several percentage points better to overcome a 350k vote lead.
That’s why I don’t bother reading GP. They’re actually less than the Enquirer, because the Enquirer actually stumbles onto the truth once in a great while.