A Virginia nonprofit released a report this week that shows potential errors in how Virginia has sent absentee ballots to people looking to vote by mail.
In one case, out of a sample size of 587 addresses in 22 districts across the state, 217 out of 243 live contacts – nearly 90 percent – the absentee ballot information listed did not match the person living there, the report found.
Virginians for America First (VAF), an organization that is trying to help Republicans regain the majority in the Virginia House of Delegates, received absentee ballot data from the Virginia Department of Elections for 22 House of Delegate Districts.
The data VAF obtained had the “name and address of all voters in our target districts who had requested, cast an early ballot by mail, or in person,” the report said.
The data were from people that requested a ballot before September 17 and up to October 16, according to the report.
Of the 86,571 addresses that were reviewed, VAF identified 5,541 “questionable” addresses to look into even further.
Using trained volunteers, VAF contacted residents in 10 of the 22 House of Delegate districts. The district the teams went to were 2, 21, 32, 66, 68, 72, 76, 83, 85, and 94, according to the report.
In these 10 districts, the group explains in a statement, teams visited 587 addresses to see if the absentee ballot information was correct.
Of the 587 addresses they visited only 243 had “live contacts.” Of the 243 people they interacted with only 26 people had the correct address listed on the absentee ballot identified.
Thus, 89 percent of people who were visited did not match the person listed on the absentee ballot form.
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