The recount in Virginia’s Attorney General election started yesterday in three locations – Fairfax County, Chesapeake and Alexandria – with the rest of the state to start today. No numbers from Chesapeake or Alexandria but from Fairfax:
The recount is expected to last through Wednesday, with the court hearing ballot challenges Wednesday and Thursday. We should have a winner declared Friday.
Whether that will be the end of things depends on whether the loser takes the election to the General Assembly. I am hoping that does not happen. From today’s Washington Post editorial:
Such a challenge — under an obscure provision in state law, never before exercised in a statewide race, that allows appeals to the General Assembly — would be an act of contempt for Virginia’s voters.
Well said.
VIVIAN J. PAIGE | All Politics is Local 