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Recount Widens Herring's Lead, Confirms That More "Low Information Voters" Vote for Democrats

written by Chad Ochocinco December 18, 2013

Today’s disappointing news on the recount in Virginia’s neck-and-neck Attorney General race not only confirms that Democrat Herring likely widened his lead over Republican Obenshain by a slim margin, but it also (not unexpectedly) confirms that Democrats know how to turn out under-informed and under-prepared voters.

The WaPo is reporting that the Herring campaign has widened its lead to roughly 800 votes as a result of the recount efforts underway yesterday and Monday. (And curse you, Thor’s Hammer, for beating me to the “Publish” button!!)

But when you dig a little deeper into where those additional votes came from, it does not inspire confidence that the Republic is in the best of hands. The vast majority of these additional votes came from ballots rejected initially as “under votes” by the optical scanning equipment employed by many localities around Virginia. An under vote is yielded when the voter fails to properly mark a ballot for a particular candidate. That means that Herring netted these additional votes from people not sophisticated enough to color-in the oval next to Herring’s name correctly.

The Virginia State Board of Elections circulated guidance to all recount officials to show them examples of ballots they should accept and reject. I understand from conversations with recount officials today that these types of examples were common among the under votes. Below are some of the types of markings that were accepted:

Example 1 - Click for Full Size

Example 1 – Click for Full Size

Example 2 - Click for Full Size

Example 2 – Click for Full Size

So, for all you Obenshain voters (and Cuccinelli, Jackson, and Dudenhefer voters, too), rest easy knowing your votes have been canceled out by people whose minds are not as sharp as the marking pens they so embarrassingly mis-used.

The full State Board of Elections guidance on what ballots to accept and which to reject can be found below.

Examples for Handcounting (2007) (2)

Recount Widens Herring's Lead, Confirms That More "Low Information Voters" Vote for Democrats was last modified: December 18th, 2013 by Chad Ochocinco
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