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A Northern Virginia county acknowledged it underreported President Joe Biden's margin of victory over Donald Trump there in the 2020 presidential election by about 4,000 votes, the first detailed accounting of errors that came to light in 2022 as part of a criminal case.

The admission Thursday from the Prince William County Office of Elections comes a week after prosecutors from the Virginia Attorney General's office dropped charges against the county's former registrar, Michele White.

Counts were also off in races for the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives, though by lesser margins.

In a statement, the county's current registrar, Eric Olsen, emphasized that the mistakes did not come close to affecting the outcome of any race and “did not consistently favor one party or candidate but were likely due to a lack of proper planning, a difficult election environment, and human error.

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[-] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 62 points 7 months ago

Remember how a bunch of Republican staffers rioted and tried to intimidate the vote counters in Florida? (The "Brooks Brothers riot".) Remember when the Supreme Court halted the vote count and declared Bush has won? Remember how the eventual full count of the votes showed Gore won by all metrics?

I fucking remember that.

[-] msbellows@c.im 18 points 7 months ago

@winterayars @homesweethomeMrL And Roger Stone was behind that.

Fucker.

[-] Barbramon1@mas.to 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)
[-] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

Yeah all the participants of the 2000 election steal got rewarded big time.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

(The “Brooks Brothers riot”.)

It was a coup. Call it what it was. It was a fucking coup. And a successful one.

[-] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago

I mean that by itself wasn't, but yeah overall the Bush administration and 2000 Republican Party is just as guilty of pulling a coup as Trump. Moreso, even. (Actually a lot moreso.)

The country just turns a blind eye because they don't want to admit the whole bush presidency was illegitimate.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

No, that absolutely was a coup. They stopped the recount to install Bush.

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