VA Election Official Caught Packing Precincts
From the VA Election Integrity Project
“I have been following this issue for a while and have spoken to some of the individuals involved. Since there is no reason to reinvent the wheel as this account is accurate, I’ll quote it and link you to it. This crap goes on at some level throughout Virginia and RPV does nothing about it. Inaction is consent.
May 11, 2023 — Political warfare broke out in Buckingham County, VA, last week when their county’s Registrar, Lindsey Taylor, resigned after being caught packing precincts with more Democrat employees and not allowing any of the remedies listed under Virginia Code 24.2-115, when a party Chairperson objects to the proposed staffing list.
The statute requires each precinct to tolerate a partisan imbalance of “no more than one person,” but Buckingham GOP Chair, Ramona Christian, found her county’s partisan mix to be 54 Independents, 17 Republicans and 12 Democrats.
Virginia has party affiliations, so in order for Christian to learn the partisan leanings of each applicant, she had to pull their individual voting records and see which ballot they requested during a party primary election.
When Registrars cannot find enough potential workers from either party, they may substitute “Independent” employees into the mix, but that solution is only allowed if both party chairs are given notice ten days before the election and are allowed “the opportunity to provide additional nominations.” By the way, the law only allows one third of precinct workers to be “citizens who do not represent any political party.”
Christian approached Taylor within the specified time limits and offered four remediation options, but Registrar Taylor rejected all of them and held the elections with the illegal staffing ratios in place.
Amazingly, in what NBC, called a “conservative rural” county, during Virginia’s “red wave” 2022 election, the Democrat School Board candidate in Michelle Ford, managed to win. . . by nine votes.”
Sections of he article were omitted. Follow the link to read the whole piece.
What NBC Failed to Mention
Besides not telling its audience that Virginia has no party registration law, neither spin piece elaborated on the legit claims about how Taylor ignored the existing parity laws. This may have been a reasonable “cause” for her termination, but she resigned.
Buckingham County (VA) GOP Party Chair Ramona Christian
In Taylor’s defense, she could have used the law’s “if practicable” escape hatch in order to pack the precincts with partisans claiming to be “Independent.” This card works best when party officials fail to submit proposed staff members before the initial staffing deadline, at least ten days before February 1.
Taylor’s refusal to remedy the problem after Christian discovered it was a major problem.
Christian dug into the voting patterns of the “Independents” and told me “at least half were Democrats.”
In an email recounting the sequence of events, Christian listed four solutions that she had offered to Registrar Lindsey Taylor, but she rejected all of them.
Christian’s email also mentioned vandalism to her car and threats of violence to her EB members.
Christian said one of her newly appointed EB members resigned after someone “threatened to burn his house down.”
Another EB member had paint thrown on her front porch. Christian said somebody had threatened to kill her dogs and my car was keyed.
She suspects that some members from Taylor’s husband’s hunt club have been showing up at the EB meetings and yelling at the Republican members.
That she had to get the Sheriff to attend every meeting and walk the two Republicans to their cars.
Why This Matters…
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