A 19th-century practice, instead of using 21st-century technology.
Next Wednesday, the Virginia Board of Elections will literally pull a name out of a bowl to decide who won the apparently tied 94th House of Delegates race, and thus find out if a blue voter wave has broken this decade’s GOP lock on its legislature.
The BOE will place two candidates’ names on paper inside film canistersand a winner will be drawn—a technique right out of 19th-century America.
What they won’t be doing is use accessible public records created by 21st-century technology to verify the 11,608 votes now awarded to the incumbent Republican, David Yancey, and to Democratic challenger Shelly Simonds.
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