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IJAM: All the funny names from counting Virginia's 2013 Attorney General votes

edited 2013-11-10 15:36:40 in General
Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human

On Nov. 5, 2013, the citizens of the state commonwealth of Virginia in the United States voted for their next Attorney General.  Well, technically, only about half of the registered voters did.  And about half of them voted for State Senator Mark Herring (a Democrat), and about half voted for State Senator Mark Obenshain (a Republican).


Who got more votes?  We're still not really sure.  We're (or they, the vote-counting folks, are) still counting: correcting tabulation errors, tallying absentee votes, evaluating provisional ballots, and more.


And so far, in the twittersphere, some dedicated election nerds have been chronicling the saga of every precinct and municipality recanvassing their voting machines and counts checking and double-checking the numbers.  And they've come up with...nicknames for some discoveries.  In a race where at most a few hundred votes have separated the top two vote-getters -- at the end of last night, it was a measly fifteen -- it's been an exciting back-and-forth sometimes, with hashtags such as:


#7CornersSurprise -- a bunch of uncounted absentee ballots were discovered after someone flagged that the absentee return rate for a district in eastern Fairfax County (around the Seven Corners area, I guess?) was much lower (around 50%) than that of its neighbors (around 80%)


#BedfordBlast -- during a series of mostly small adjustments (double-digit vote total corrections) to both candidates, with Herring just a hundred or so votes behind, a heavily Obenshain-supporting county finds a tabulation error that gives Obenshain several hundred more votes


#ShockoeSlipUp -- multiple precincts with tabulation errors, including one with a voting machine that ran into some problems, in Richmond (albeit not in the Shockoe area in Richmond, but the name was deemed too funny to let go)


#DanvilleDisaster -- when someone noticed that in 2008 and 2012, Obama (the Dem candidate for president) got over 12,000 votes in Danville (which would be nearly 60% of the vote), but statewide Dem candidates only got about 5000 votes this year, and a lackluster video of the Dems' Danville campaign office (taken by a Republican operative, fwiw) surfaced, showing them apparently not doing much

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