Virginia: Waynesboro election officials sue to require hand-count of ballots | Laura Vozzella/The Washington Post
Top Republican election officials in rural Waynesboro, Va., say they will refuse to certify the results of the Nov. 5 presidential election unless the city’s ballots are counted by hand, alleging in a lawsuit that voting machines could be secretly programmed to rig the outcome. Two members of the three-seat Board of Elections in Waynesboro, a small, red-leaning Shenandoah Valley city about 30 miles west of Charlottesville, contend in the suit that tallying ballots by machine amounts to counting them “in secret” — something prohibited by the state constitution. “The board members have taken an oath to uphold the Virginia Constitution, and the Virginia Constitution prohibits the counting of ballots in secret, so the board members do not believe that any election decided by voting machine total in the City of Waynesboro can be certified as accurate,” the suit says. Read Article