BREAKING: VA’s Largest Blue County Just Announced It is *Re-Scanning* Ballots & Will Announce Vote Totals Later Tonight

Virginia’s most populous nation, Fairfax County, can be re-scanning ballots and asserting the vote totals later tonight, Fox Information reported throughout its stay election protection. There’s a reported delay and the county is re-scanning ballots, a Fairfax County election official introduced earlier on Election Day.

“Terry McAuliffe’s marketing campaign says Fairfax County won’t meet their self-imposed deadline of 8pm to depend early votes,” Virginia Capitol Bureau reporter Jackie DeFusco reported. “In the meantime, the marketing campaign says they’re inspired by voter turnout in Falls Church and Prince William, which apparently have surpassed 2017 totals.”

“NEW INFO: Terry McAuliffe’s marketing campaign says a portion of the early votes in Fairfax County should be rescanned and there’s no set timeline for that but,” DeFusco famous in an replace. “His workers says that might delay the outcomes.”

The re-scanning of ballots means that the anticipated shenanigans could also be afoot. Nevertheless, a brand new legislation in Virginia gives a partial clarification, though it doesn’t clarify the ‘delays.’

“A brand new state legislation requires native election places of work to start pre-processing early and absentee ballots not less than every week previous to Election Day,” ABC 13 reported.

“Pre-processing primarily means checking in every poll, then working them via a scanner that reads the ballots in order that they’re able to be counted as quickly because the polls shut on Election Day,” the report added.

“The absentee ballots, as they arrive in are verified and checked in, after which they’re opened, and the ballots are eliminated and unfolded. After which they’re run via the scanners,” stated Scott Konopasek, Fairfax County’s Common Registrar and Director of Elections. “It has to begin early to ensure that us to have the ability to accommodate the quantity of ballots we count on to have.”

Fairfax County is Virginia’s most populous county. An estimated 165,000 Fairfax County residents voted early, both by in-person or by mail. That is about 22 % voter turnout simply from early voting. This early voter turnout tallies are anticipated to be introduced sooner than the complete Election Day totals later within the night.

“Essential to notice — there are approved ballot watchers from each events within the room, observing as this pre-processing of ballots takes place,” ABC reporter Heather Graf famous on Twitter.

It’s unclear what Fairfax County election officers meant that they are going to be asserting the vote totals ‘later tonight.’ Nevertheless, if the operation runs into the early morning hours or in a single day, we could have one other 2020 election nightmare on our palms as soon as once more.