{"id":1739519,"date":"2022-11-15T08:02:07","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T13:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1739519"},"modified":"2022-11-15T11:18:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T16:18:22","slug":"nonprofit-alleges-election-machines-reported-more-votes-than-ballots-in-two-va-precincts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nonprofit-alleges-election-machines-reported-more-votes-than-ballots-in-two-va-precincts\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonprofit Alleges Election Machines Reported More Votes Than Ballots in Two VA Precincts"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnonprofit-alleges-election-machines-reported-more-votes-than-ballots-in-two-va-precincts%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1739519&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/social_media_share\/public\/2021-05\/GettyImages-526089022.jpg?h=37702503&#038;itok=I9BIGvs6\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Election machines reported more votes than physical ballots cast in two precincts in an influential Virginia county, raising concerns about election administration in the midterms after the county&#8217;s former registrar was charged earlier this year with multiple election-related offenses.<\/p>\n<p>In Prince William County, one of Virginia&#8217;s most important electoral counties, at least two precincts had more ballots reported on the machine scanners&#8217; tallies of ballots than were tabulated by election officers, according to a report by Electoral Process Education Corporation (EPEC), a nonprofit that performs election data analysis.<\/p>\n<p>A board of directors member of EPEC\u00a0told Just the News on Monday that precincts P-612 and P-104 were the ones affected by the discrepant vote totals. P-612 is in Virginia&#8217;s 7th Congressional District, and P-104 is in the 10th.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Rep. Abigail Spanberger won the 7th CD against GOP nominee Yesli Vega, and Democratic Rep. Jennifer Wexton\u00a0won reelection in the 10th CD against Republican candidate Hung Cao.<\/p>\n<p>In P-612, the ballot scanner reported 531 ballots scanned, but only 504 ballots were actually collected in the machine. Election officers realized the discrepancy when comparing the check-ins on the poll books to the number of ballots the scanner had reported.<\/p>\n<p>The issues were documented by election officers with the General Registrar and Electoral Board, and the information was recorded in the official statement of results and chief&#8217;s notes.<\/p>\n<p>Election officers hand-counted the ballots according to election procedures multiple times. The outcome was 27 more votes on the machine tallies than physical ballots. A total of 22 of those votes were for the Democratic candidate, three for the Republican, and two write-ins.<\/p>\n<p>In P-104, there were only about 5-10 more ballots on the machine tallies compared to physical ballots out of a total of 1505 ballots cast.<\/p>\n<p>While the discrepancies won&#8217;t change the outcome of the elections, and no other errors have been discovered, the issue has yet to be explained.<\/p>\n<p>Prince William County&#8217;s\u00a0Office of Elections didn&#8217;t immediately respond to a request for comment Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>EPEC &#8220;is urging Virginia&#8217;s public election officials to verify scanner machine ballot counts before certification of results in key precincts as a result of recent findings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The nonprofit added, &#8220;Although the number of ballots impacted was small, the repeated findings raise questions about the origin of the errors and whether the machines were operating correctly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The county election results are to be certified by the electoral board on Tuesday. Certification includes seeing how many people voted, what ballots were rejected, and checking provisional ballots.<\/p>\n<p>EPEC is requesting that election officials pull out equipment at precincts that had discrepancies between the physical ballots and machine tallies, which is part of the election process, and &#8220;perform a full hand count and tabulation audit&#8221;; compare physical ballots &#8220;with the Scanner Report Tapes, the full Cast Vote Record (CVR), Digital Ballot Images and other machine records and logs&#8221;; ensure the election equipment is in compliance &#8220;with Virginia&#8217;s election statutes by certifying software, hardware, and programming hash codes, and then checking randomly selected precincts with the same equipment but with no reported issues&#8221;; and update procedure that would &#8220;require verification that the number of ballots in the scanner collection bin match the scanner result report tape,&#8221; and if they do not match, then perform a hand count and record the results.<\/p>\n<p>These issues in Prince William County come after the county&#8217;s former registrar of voters,\u00a0Michele White,\u00a0was <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/politics-policy\/elections\/ex-virginia-election-official-indicted-corruption-charges-related-2020\">charged in September<\/a> with two felony counts alleging corrupt conduct as an election official and making a false statement, and one misdemeanor charge of willful neglect of duty by an elected official.<\/p>\n<p>White had resigned abruptly last year without explanation, and current Director of Elections\/General Registrar Eric Olsen reported &#8220;discrepancies&#8221; to the commissioner of elections and State Board of Elections earlier this year, which led to the investigation by the state attorney general.<\/p>\n<p>In October, White&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.princewilliamtimes.com\/news\/updated-judge-sets-april-trial-for-former-prince-william-county-election-chief-indicted-for-lying\/article_1effa860-50ad-11ed-9dc8-03c3a1abebf3.html\">trial was scheduled for April<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Election machines reported more votes than physical ballots cast in two precincts in an influential Virginia county, raising concerns about election administration in the midterms after the county&#8217;s former registrar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1739522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1739519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1739519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1739522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1739519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1739519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1739519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}