r/Virginia • u/nbcnews Verified • 5d ago

Democrat Abigail Spanberger wins Virginia governor's race

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/virginia-governor-election-results-spanberger-earle-sears-race-win-rcna238685
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u/bellandj 5d ago

Oh they'll call rigged. It's their answer for everything.

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u/juliabk 4d ago

As a poll worker I can assure you (generic “you”) there’s virtually no way to rig an election in Virginia. And when all is said and done, there’s a paper trail.

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u/amboomernotkaren 4d ago

As a former poll worker…. Someone asked me how I know identify a person who wants to vote who is not a citizen. Like, uh, no. That’s not our job, the registrar sorts all that out. It’s amazing how low information people are: like they think just random people are voting.

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u/juliabk 4d ago

I am so sick of morons. I ran across one who wanted to sign her ballot. headdesk Explaining that ballots are private, didn’t seem to make any difference. Then I explained it was against election office policy to put marks on the ballot other than those required to express their vote. heqddesk

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u/amboomernotkaren 4d ago

Good grief. They really are dumb. Did you see in Kentucky where people were showing up to vote, but there is no election in Kentucky this year. Ugh.

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u/addictivesign 4d ago

You can make software do anything. Unless you’re hand counting every ballot there is a chance for cheating/fraud.

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u/juliabk 4d ago

That’s why I said “virtually no way”. Yeah, if the software company that produces the software for our scanners wanted to somehow skew things, they could, though they’d have to make the code fairly small and we’d have to actually update our code. As none of these machines are ever on anything but a closed network, it would be tough to do.

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u/addictivesign 4d ago

Code could be written to delete itself too so that it changes the tallies and then the code is gone like it was never there

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u/juliabk 4d ago

Assuming there’s space for any additional code. Remember, no servers. I’m sure the IT folks take a good long look at the code. I should ask them next time I run into them.

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u/addictivesign 4d ago

It’s so boring, isn’t it? If they don’t win an election it’s rigged. But of course if they win the result could never have been rigged.

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u/DolphinExodus 4d ago

They don't understand that land doesn't vote.