{"id":30957,"date":"2018-01-04T12:59:52","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T20:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=30957"},"modified":"2018-01-04T12:59:52","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T20:59:52","slug":"highway-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2018\/01\/04\/highway-robbery\/","title":{"rendered":"Highway Robbery!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I trust you don’t need any help from me to understand the injustice of deciding this Virginia House seat by a drawing.<\/font><\/p>\n

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A Virginia elections official reached into an artsy stoneware bowl, pulled out a name and declared Republican David Yancey the winner of a House of Delegates race that could determine which political party controls the chamber.<\/p>\n

Virginia staged a dramatic, rare election lottery, livestreamed across the country, to settle a tie between Yancey, an incumbent from Newport News, and Democrat Shelly Simonds.<\/p>\n

The spectacle drew national attention as an odd way to decide a highly consequential contest. But it might not be the last word in a saga that\u2019s taken more turns than the clay that went into that wheel-thrown bowl, borrowed for the occasion from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts .<\/p>\n

Simonds and a crowd of about 100 state officials, journalists and politicos crowded into the West Reading Room of the Patrick Henry Building for the event. Yancey was not present, although he sent a representative.<\/p>\n

The Democrat sat in the first row, between her husband, Paul, and her 15-year-old daughter, Georgia, holding both of their hands.<\/p>\n

As the loser of the drawing, Simonds is entitled by law to request a second recount, likely leaving the race in limbo when the General Assembly reconvenes Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Moments after the drawing, she said, \u201cThis is a sad conclusion for me.\u201d But she did not rule out a request for another recount. \u201cAll options are on the table,\u201d she said…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Shelly should declare a recount because, after the elections commission outlawed one ballot to call it a draw, she did not get to examine her opponent’s ballots for defects, the way Yancey had.<\/font><\/p>\n

RESIST THE REPUBLICAN REICH!!<\/font><\/font><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I trust you don’t need any help from me to understand the injustice of deciding this Virginia House seat by a drawing. A Virginia elections official reached into an artsy stoneware bowl, pulled out a name and declared Republican David Yancey the winner of a House of Delegates race that could determine which political party […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}