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A Northern Virginia county acknowledged it underreported President Joe Biden's margin of victory over Donald Trump there in the 2020 presidential election by about 4,000 votes, the first detailed accounting of errors that came to light in 2022 as part of a criminal case.

The admission Thursday from the Prince William County Office of Elections comes a week after prosecutors from the Virginia Attorney General's office dropped charges against the county's former registrar, Michele White.

Counts were also off in races for the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives, though by lesser margins.

In a statement, the county's current registrar, Eric Olsen, emphasized that the mistakes did not come close to affecting the outcome of any race and “did not consistently favor one party or candidate but were likely due to a lack of proper planning, a difficult election environment, and human error.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago (2 children)

4000 isn’t an insignificant sum

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Turns out there was election fraud after all. Performed by the very ones who claim(ed) the election was rigged.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Pedophilia, election hijinks, organized crime: Every wild accusation they make seems to be a confession.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

"Turns out"?! Trump was literally recorded calling around threatening people not to count votes. The effort to rig the election was made entirely in the open, the Republicans were basically talking about it on Fox News.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

"Turns out"?!

Relax, it's a figure a speech champ. It's called being facetious.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Yeah, sorry, didn't mean to come across as aggressive or dismissive of your point. Reading it back I realize "?!" comes across as a bit much.

I'm just a bit tired that every time we learn in some new way that the Republican party consists of a bunch of authoritarians we're supposed to act as if we just learned something new.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I mean, it is given that Biden won this county be more than 60,000 votes already, and Virginia by 450,000.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Ok, but what if it was Georgia where Biden won by 12,000 votes? What if 3 counties in Georgia had the 4,000 vote error margin and flipped the state?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Then that would've been revealed in both of the TWO recounts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Would the outcome have changed?