Virginia officials threaten to reject election results

IN VIRGINIA, A PAIR OF REPUBLICAN ELECTION OFFICIALS ARE THREATENING NOT TO CERTIFY THE NOVEMBER FIFTH ELECTION RESULTS – CLAIMING THE PROCESS GOES AGAINST THE STATE’S CONSTITUTION.

TWO MEMBERS OF WAYNESBORO’S BOARD OF ELECTIONS FILED A LAWSUIT – ALLEGING THE MACHINE THAT TALLIES BALLOTS DOES SO IN “SECRET” WHICH THEY ARGUE IS PROHIBITED BY VIRGINIA’S CONSTITUTION.

WAYNESBORO CITY BOARD OF ELECTIONS CHAIR CURTIS LILLY AND VICE CHAIR SCOTT MARES ARE SUING VIRGINIA ELECTIONS COMMISSIONER SUSAN BEALS AND STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS CHAIR JOHN O’BANNON.

LILLY AND MARES SAY THEY CANNOT VERIFY:

1. THE VOTING MACHINE PROGRAM BEING USED TO COUNT THE BALLOTS IS KEEPING A TRUE AND ACCURATE COUNT.
2. OR THAT THE VOTING MACHINE PROGRAM BEING USED TO COUNT THE BALLOTS IS RECORDING THE TRUE AND ACCURATE COUNT.
3. OR THAT THE VOTING MACHINE RECORD TAPE ACCURATELY REPRESENTS THE BALLOTS CAST.

THEY ARGUE BECAUSE NEITHER THE PROGRAM COUNTING THE VOTES NOR THE BALLOTS CAN BE EXAMINED, THE COUNT IS BEING DONE IN SECRET. WHICH THEY SAY VIOLATES  THE STATE CONSTITUTION.

ARTICLE TWO, SECTION THREE OF VIRGINIA’S CONSTITUTION STATES: “SECRECY IN CASTING VOTES SHALL BE MAINTAINED, EXCEPT AS PROVISION MAY BE MADE FOR ASSISTANCE TO HANDICAPPED VOTERS, BUT THE BALLOT BOX OR VOTING MACHINE SHALL BE KEPT IN PUBLIC VIEW AND SHALL NOT BE OPENED, NOR THE BALLOTS CANVASSED NOR THE VOTES COUNTED, IN SECRET.”

LILLY AND MARES ALSO ALLEGE THAT BECAUSE THEY ARE PROHIBITED FROM EVALUATING THE VOTING MACHINES, THERE’S NO WAY TO ENSURE IT’S NOT HOOKED UP TO THE INTERNET WHICH COULD ALLOW SOMEONE TO ALTER THE RESULTS.

THEY SAY IN THEIR SUIT  CERTIFYING THE ELECTION “UNDER THE CURRENT LEGAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE REGIME, THEREFORE, WOULD BE A VIOLATION OF THEIR OATHS OF OFFICE, AND, ABSENT COURT INTERVENTION, SHALL REFUSE TO CERTIFY THE 2024 ELECTION.”

WE HAVE REACHED OUT TO VIRGINIA’S DEPARTMENT OF ELECTIONS FOR COMMENT ON THE LAWSUIT.