I spent yesterday working on the canvass in the Virginia election (something that those who write about election law ought to try sometime so as to get a real world experience of the process).

The process isn’t pretty.  For example, voters who completed provisional ballot forms shoved their ballots into the optical scanners to be counted as regular ballots improperly.  Other voters who were not registered to vote were nevertheless allowed to vote a regular ballot.  And that was information that merely came across my desk at the canvass, much less the hundreds of other desks and canvasses occurring across the Commonwealth of Virginia.

With the election for Attorney General showing a narrow lead for Republican Mark Obenshain, expect the Democrats to pounce and aggressively look for a way to snatch victory out of defeat.