Analysis of Virginia's 2017 election (including alt-right candidate Corey Stewart)

[scubadude]

WHAT.
THE.
FUCK.

I haven't been following this election. Just saw a few FB posts that they elected a tranny? Seriously, wtf??

 

[Truth Teller]

WHAT.
THE.
FUCK.

I haven't been following this election. Just saw a few FB posts that they elected a tranny? Seriously, wtf??

Yep, the GOP candidate was criticized for "deadnaming" it. To normal people, that means calling it by its actual name, rather than giving into its' delusion.

 

[Samseau]

There's huge potential for voter fraud in Virginia:

https://www.elections.virginia.gov/registration/photo-ids-required-to-vote/index.html

You can apply for a Virginia Voter Photo ID Card throughout the year from any local voter registration office, even on Election Day. First, complete the Virginia Voter Photo Identification Card Application (English | Español) in the presence of a designated Virginia Election Official. Second, an Election Official will then take your picture and have you sign a digital signature pad. Once those two steps are complete, your Virginia Voter Photo ID Card is printed and mailed to your address on file in the Voter Registration System.

In special circumstances1, a designated Virginia Election Official will print a Temporary Identification Document which you may use while awaiting your Virginia Voter Photo ID Card to arrive in the mail, which usually takes about two to four weeks. Voters who receive a Temporary Identification Document prior to an upcoming election may use their Temporary Identification Document to cast a regular ballot on Election Day. A Temporary Identification Document may also be used when voting in-person absentee prior to the election.

Voters who register to vote for the first time may also apply for a Virginia Voter Photo ID Card when they submit their voter registration application.

Literally zero restriction on who can vote, all you gotta do is show up. Register as a dead man and you're in. Claim you're new to Virginia, having moved from California as an illegal, and you're good.

 

[TheBMan]

There's huge potential for voter fraud in Virginia:

https://www.elections.virginia.gov/registration/photo-ids-required-to-vote/index.html

You can apply for a Virginia Voter Photo ID Card throughout the year from any local voter registration office, even on Election Day. First, complete the Virginia Voter Photo Identification Card Application (English | Español) in the presence of a designated Virginia Election Official. Second, an Election Official will then take your picture and have you sign a digital signature pad. Once those two steps are complete, your Virginia Voter Photo ID Card is printed and mailed to your address on file in the Voter Registration System.

In special circumstances1, a designated Virginia Election Official will print a Temporary Identification Document which you may use while awaiting your Virginia Voter Photo ID Card to arrive in the mail, which usually takes about two to four weeks. Voters who receive a Temporary Identification Document prior to an upcoming election may use their Temporary Identification Document to cast a regular ballot on Election Day. A Temporary Identification Document may also be used when voting in-person absentee prior to the election.

Voters who register to vote for the first time may also apply for a Virginia Voter Photo ID Card when they submit their voter registration application.

Literally zero restriction on who can vote, all you gotta do is show up. Register as a dead man and you're in. Claim you're new to Virginia, having moved from California as an illegal, and you're good.

I actually watched/monitored the polls in Virginia last year and came away w/the thought that voter fraud was very difficult to pull off. Multiple layers of people watching everything.
Gillespie got his ass kicked because he's an establishment Bush Republican who didnt go near Trump, not because 50k Virginians committed voter fraud.

 

[Days of Broken Arrows]

There's huge potential for voter fraud in Virginia:

https://www.elections.virginia.gov/registration/photo-ids-required-to-vote/index.html

You can apply for a Virginia Voter Photo ID Card throughout the year from any local voter registration office, even on Election Day. First, complete the Virginia Voter Photo Identification Card Application (English | Español) in the presence of a designated Virginia Election Official. Second, an Election Official will then take your picture and have you sign a digital signature pad. Once those two steps are complete, your Virginia Voter Photo ID Card is printed and mailed to your address on file in the Voter Registration System.

In special circumstances1, a designated Virginia Election Official will print a Temporary Identification Document which you may use while awaiting your Virginia Voter Photo ID Card to arrive in the mail, which usually takes about two to four weeks. Voters who receive a Temporary Identification Document prior to an upcoming election may use their Temporary Identification Document to cast a regular ballot on Election Day. A Temporary Identification Document may also be used when voting in-person absentee prior to the election.

Voters who register to vote for the first time may also apply for a Virginia Voter Photo ID Card when they submit their voter registration application.

Literally zero restriction on who can vote, all you gotta do is show up. Register as a dead man and you're in. Claim you're new to Virginia, having moved from California as an illegal, and you're good.

This is true. But there is also a massive concentration of government workers in the Northern Virginia suburbs, virtually all of whom lean Democrat. As with New York, the population isn't balanced. There are way, way more liberals concentrated in small areas than there are conservatives in the rural parts of the state.

These government workers, more than illegals, are likely who swung this election. It might not seem that way from afar, but never underestimate the amount of people "working" for the government who have a vested interest in keeping it big, Democrat-style.

What two people can do in any private industry it takes two-hundred to do in government -- and that doesn't include the scads of highly-paid contractors and "liaisons."

 

[TheBMan]

There's huge potential for voter fraud in Virginia:

https://www.elections.virginia.gov/registration/photo-ids-required-to-vote/index.html

You can apply for a Virginia Voter Photo ID Card throughout the year from any local voter registration office, even on Election Day. First, complete the Virginia Voter Photo Identification Card Application (English | Español) in the presence of a designated Virginia Election Official. Second, an Election Official will then take your picture and have you sign a digital signature pad. Once those two steps are complete, your Virginia Voter Photo ID Card is printed and mailed to your address on file in the Voter Registration System.

In special circumstances1, a designated Virginia Election Official will print a Temporary Identification Document which you may use while awaiting your Virginia Voter Photo ID Card to arrive in the mail, which usually takes about two to four weeks. Voters who receive a Temporary Identification Document prior to an upcoming election may use their Temporary Identification Document to cast a regular ballot on Election Day. A Temporary Identification Document may also be used when voting in-person absentee prior to the election.

Voters who register to vote for the first time may also apply for a Virginia Voter Photo ID Card when they submit their voter registration application.

Literally zero restriction on who can vote, all you gotta do is show up. Register as a dead man and you're in. Claim you're new to Virginia, having moved from California as an illegal, and you're good.

This is true. But there is also a massive concentration of government workers in the Northern Virginia suburbs, virtually all of whom lean Democrat. As with New York, the population isn't balanced. There are way, way more liberals concentrated in small areas than there are conservatives in the rural parts of the state.

These government workers, more than illegals, are likely who swung this election. It might not seem that way from afar, but never underestimate the amount of people "working" for the government who have a vested interest in keeping it big, Democrat-style.

What two people can do in any private industry it takes two-hundred to do in government -- and that doesn't include the scads of highly-paid contractors and "liaisons."

Not just government workers, but non-whites in Fairfax and Arlington, and they tend to go Democrat.

 

[budoslavic]

WHAT.
THE.
FUCK.

I haven't been following this election. Just saw a few FB posts that they elected a tranny? Seriously, wtf??

Yep, the GOP candidate was criticized for "deadnaming" it. To normal people, that means calling it by its actual name, rather than giving into its' delusion.

 

[Easy_C]

They're blowing this up to be far more substantial than it is.

Remember Trump lost VA by five points. Taking that into consideration, how would you expect a Republican candidate who is, all things told, a noticeably weaker personality running a weaker populist platform going to perform?

If you responded by saying "probably a few points lower", that's exactly what happened.

 

[Samseau]

True, either go MAGA or go home. Milquetoast Republicans are worthless now. And I don't think he lost due to voter fraud. But the potential is there, if the count came down to less than 10K votes I'd demand a careful verification of all votes.

 

[TheBMan]

True, either go MAGA or go home. Milquetoast Republicans are worthless now. And I don't think he lost due to voter fraud. But the potential is there, if the count came down to less than 10K votes I'd demand a careful verification of all votes.

If you guys havent seen it, google the commercial Northram ran w/the guy in the pickup and the confederate flag chasing the Mexican kids. A lot of people hoped that would fire up the Republican base, but apparently it didnt.

 

[budoslavic]

Not surprised by tonight's VA election results. Gillespie wasn't going to win anyway especially considering this tweet back in June.

 

[MOVSM]

And I'm sure this has nothing to do with anything.

About 200,000 convicted felons in Virginia will now have the right to vote in November

 

[yankeetravels]

True, either go MAGA or go home. Milquetoast Republicans are worthless now. And I don't think he lost due to voter fraud. But the potential is there, if the count came down to less than 10K votes I'd demand a careful verification of all votes.

If you guys havent seen it, google the commercial Northram ran w/the guy in the pickup and the confederate flag chasing the Mexican kids. A lot of people hoped that would fire up the Republican base, but apparently it didnt.

I saw that ad on facebook. It seems to have gone viral. That was for the Virginia democrat?! Damn, some people on the left have gone really low with smear campaigns. I've seen Trump impeach commercials too.

 

[RexImperator]

Virginia's 2017 election (including alt-right candidate Corey Stewart)

To paraphrase Edward Abbey, D.C. is the blob that ate northern Virginia.

 

[C-Note]

Looks like the Democratic base in NoVa was more energized and motivated to get out and vote yesterday, indicated not just by the margin of victory for Northam, but by how many state house seats they picked up. That tranny in Prince William County beat a Republican incumbent who had won like eight consecutive elections. The long-serving Republican in West Fairfax/East Loudon County was also unseated. There were four assembly races waiting to be called as of this morning. Not counting those four, the Democrats picked up 14 state seats to deadlock the state assembly.

Of course, the Amazon WaPo and other Democratic pundits are saying that the reason the Republicans took a beating in VA was because of Trump and all Republican candidates going forward need to renounce Trump. Hopefully, the other Republican candidates won't fall for that, because it isn't true.

 

[stugatz]

Virginia is lost. I don't want to say it, because then it'll be too easy to say the same thing for North Carolina. (Maybe Georgia too? There's a pretty big trend of blacks moving to Atlanta, but not sure if that's altered the state's politics yet - although this could be countered by the states they're leaving getting redder.)

I'm shocked, though, it only took a decade and a half. If we somehow fuck up the midterms, we're so fucked it isn't even funny. This demographics stuff has been sneaking up on us for a while.

 

[Samseau]

 

[floor7]

Virginia is lost. I don't want to say it, because then it'll be too easy to say the same thing for North Carolina. (Maybe Georgia too? There's a pretty big trend of blacks moving to Atlanta, but not sure if that's altered the state's politics yet - although this could be countered by the states they're leaving getting redder.)

I'm shocked, though, it only took a decade and a half. If we somehow fuck up the midterms, we're so fucked it isn't even funny. This demographics stuff has been sneaking up on us for a while.

If Amazon puts HQ2 in Atlanta, that'll shove GA into purple in the medium-long run even faster.

 

[budoslavic]

 

[TheBMan]

Gillepsie did absolutely nothing to fire up the Republican base in VA. I mean, seriously, his opponent made a commercial of a white guy in a pickup with a confederate flag running down muslims and Mexicans and I dont think he said a word about it. The cucked, establishment R's dont have a chance in some places unless they grow a sack and stand up for themselves like Trump did.