Virginia directs 60,000 voters to wrong polling place for midterms

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Mailers from Virginia elections officials directed more than 60,000 people to the wrong polling place, including 30,000 in Northern Virginia.

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Virginia directs 60,000 voters to wrong polling place for midterms
Mailers from Virginia elections officials directed more than 60,000 people to the wrong polling place, including 30,000 in Northern Virginia.
5:32 PM · Oct 21, 2022

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/10/21/youngkin-virginia-midterms-election/

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RICHMOND — State elections officials directed more than 30,000 Northern Virginia voters to the wrong polling place in mailers sent ahead of the Nov. 8 midterm elections, an error they acknowledged Friday and blamed on the private printing company that produced the notices.

Those mistakes follow even more error-riddled effort in Southwest Virginia, where an additional 30,000 voters were affected. Some notices in that part of the state were sent to physical addresses instead of P.O. boxes, then re-sent to the boxes but with the wrong information, the Bluefield Daily Telegraph reported this week.

And earlier this month, the department disclosed that an unspecified technical glitch had left about 107,000 voter applications in limbo for months.

State elections officials promised that the mistakes will not prevent anyone from voting. Local registrars for Fairfax and Prince William counties will send corrected notices to all affected voters Monday, according to a news release from the department that noted the state will reimburse the localities for that expense.

But Democrats seized on the string of errors to question the competence of the Elections Department under Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R), a former private equity chief who won the office last year on promises to bring “election integrity” and his executive skills to state government.

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[CurtEastPoint]

1. Yeah, blame the printer. Lying, thieving GDMFSOBs

[TheBlackAdder]

18. Printing services load the client-supplied file, print samples and have the client sign-off on it.

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If they provide additional data services, the file or printout of the data is sent to the client for sign-off.

It's not the printer's fault.

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[superpatriotman]

2. Know where and how you are supposed to vote

Our democracy does not ask much of citizens, but knowing how and where and when to vote are a minimum to call yourself American.

[questionseverything]

3. If the election authority tells citizens the wrong location it's hardly citizens fault

[Sympthsical]

6. My local directions were once to a Macaroni Grill

It was kind of amusing. They changed polling locations from a school to a fire department garage next to city hall, but the address led people to a Macaroni Grill about a mile down the street.

It was ever so confusing. Hilarious, but confusing. I still wonder how they managed it. Whose pockets were getting greased with overpriced appetizers?!

[keithbvadu2]

4. check your voter registration and sample ballot

check your voter registration and sample ballot

pick your state and click find out how to register

https://vote.gov/

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view your sample ballot for voting

see who and what you are voting for (or against)

https://ballotpedia.org/Sample_Ballot_Lookup

https://ballotpedia.org/Main_Page

[drray23]

5. Oh what a coincidence!

This happens to be northern Virginia which votes heavily democratic. I am sure it's just an unfortunate mistake. In the past I would not have even considered that it might not be. Nowadays, given how the republican party is behaving, I am not so sure.

[Sympthsical]

8. Half Northern, half SW Virginia

SW Virginia is very, very, very, very red.

Mistakes happen during elections. It's not all a grand conspiracy. I think we'll need to pace ourselves.

The headline notes only Northern VA because clickies for controversy and outrage! And people dependably fall right into it.

[questionseverything]

10. Sometimes a mistake is just a mistake

But we need to watch for patterns that benefit one side more than the other

[Sympthsical]

11. Oh sure. Keep an eye out.

But "Error affects both sides equally" isn't a very interesting headline. Many people on both sides in general are already on total edge about the legitimacy of the elections. Having media (social or MSM) feeding into paranoia about things for clicks is just . . .

Feels like some social media types looking for clicks figure, "We can make this experience so much worse!" Thanks, guys.

[uponit7771]

20. Traitorous MAGA don't have benefit of the doubt any longer

[Sympthsical]

21. Yeah, but when is it talking out of both sides of your mouth?

You want on the one hand to hammer Republicans for questioning the legitimacy of elections - a sentiment I agree with.

On the other, people want to see every tiny thing as a grand conspiracy to steal elections.

So which is it? You can't have both.

[Grins]

12. It was also in SW Virginia that is far from being blue.

The Virginia Board of Elections (not the Sec. of State) appears to be a pretty bipartisan group, headed by a chairman who was once an adviser to Terry McAuliffe.

My ballot in Fairfax County was fine.

[BComplex]

7. SO IMPORTANT!!! VOTE EARLY!!! You may still be able to straighten out the republicans' cheating!

If you wait 'til the last minute, you're going to be screwed.

We all know how much republicans cheat.

Do. Not. Trust. Them. This. Election.!!!!!

[SergeStorms]

9. "Technical glitches".

It's amazing how well planned some of those technical glitches are. 🙄

[Ford_Prefect]

13. This is Jim Crow era voter interference and sadly not rare in certain parts of Virginia.

[Mblaze]

14. We can't allow Republicans

To continue to profit from applied incompetence.

[progree]

15. One way to tell: If it says Republicans vote Tuesday and Democrats vote Wednesday,

it's probably deliberate misinformation. But could be just a printing error by our private-contractor printing service. (Always blame the contractor, never take responsibility over those you hire)

[Cha]

16. Good.. "Dems Seized On It"!!!

[DFW]

17. That "unspecified technical glitch"

The generic term is “typical Republican election fraud.” You can be sure Youngkin has been given his marching orders.

[Genki Hikari]

19. Horse puckeys!

State elections officials directed more than 30,000 Northern Virginia voters to the wrong polling place in mailers sent ahead of the Nov. 8 midterm elections, an error they acknowledged Friday and blamed on the private printing company that produced the notices.

As the customer requesting the print job, it is the customer's responsibility to make sure the information is correct before sending it to the printer. And if a screwup still happens it is the customer's responsibility to make sure what you receive is correct before you mail it out.

Mistake? I think not.

It reeks of intentional.