Watchdog has the story:
“True the Vote, a national election-watch group, warned Chesterfield last month to scrub out ineligible voters, or be sued. The State Board of Elections had given the county a list of 2,200 names to review.
But Chesterfield General Registrar Lawrence Haake declined to purge any voters, saying it was too close to the election.
Haake also challenged the accuracy of the state list, saying 170 of the voters shouldn’t have been on it.
Chesterfield, a GOP stronghold, cast more than 103,000 votes in the attorney general’s race: 57,099 for Republican Mark Obenshain and 46,508 for Democrat Mark Herring. The 55-45 percent margin was notably smaller than Ken Cuccinelli’s 66-34 win in Chesterfield in the 2009 AG race.”
Chesterfield was shortstaffed and didn’t have time to do the job of removing ineligible voters? Perhaps fewer op-ed pieces in the Richmond Times and more focus on the job might help.