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BeachDem5/13/2018 6:22:17 pm PDT

Well this will make you puke:

Va. election officials assigned 26 voters to the wrong district. It might’ve cost Democrats a pivotal race.

It was the Yancey/Simonds election decided by picking the name out of a bowl.

Now, a review of voter registration records and district maps by The Washington Post has found more than two dozen voters — enough to swing the outcome of that race — cast ballots in the wrong district, because of errors by local elections officials.

The misassigned voters lived in a predominantly African American precinct that heavily favored Democrats in the fall, raising the possibility that they would have delivered the district to Simonds had they voted in the proper race.

washingtonpost.com

Looks like it was not a malicious error, but crikey—maybe Virginia should hire the WaPo to organize their voter info.