Virginia Politics

Virginia AG presses GOP senator for proof of claims of fraud in statewide elections

By Antonio Olivo
Yesterday at 5:42 p.m. EDT

Virginia Attorney General Mark R. Herring’s office Thursday pressed a surrogate of Republican gubernatorial nominee Glenn Youngkin to share evidence supporting her claims that Democrats are trying to “steal” Tuesday’s election — allegations Herring (D), who is running for reelection, called a ploy to undermine voters’ confidence in the outcome before the results are in.

State Sen. Amanda F. Chase (R-Chesterfield), who has been working to rally the state’s conservative Trump-aligned voter base on behalf of Youngkin, recently told conservative talk radio host John Fredericks that she has shared evidence of a Democratic voting-fraud scheme with the Youngkin campaign.

Chase — who first aired her allegations at a GOP rally earlier this month that featured a telephone call from former president Donald Trump — has also said that she met with a man who she said thwarted an online effort to “install” Hillary Clinton as president in 2016. ... Chase said she knew about a similar plan on behalf of Terry McAuliffe, the Democratic nominee for Virginia’s governor.

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“He showed me . . . exactly how they’re stealing elections in Virginia,” Chase told Fredericks during another appearance on his show. “They’re moving, in cyberland, they are switching inactive voters to active voters, all in the same week, it’s undetectable. I know what they’re doing, John, and now the Youngkin campaign has all that information and they’re not going to get by on us this year, I’m telling you.”

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Laura Vozzella contributed to this report.

By Antonio Olivo
Antonio Olivo covers government, politics and other issues in Northern Virginia. He has also reported from Afghanistan and Mexico after joining The Washington Post in 2013. Twitter https://twitter.com/aolivo