The first 50-50 power balance in 17 years for Virginia’s House of Delegates rested on a single vote, from a recount, for less than 24 hours. Now it could literally come down to drawing straws.
The election in the 94th District is now a tie after a three-judge panel ruled Wednesday that a ballot that was rejected during Tuesday’s recount should have gone to three-term incumbent Del. David Yancey, R-Newport News.
“Well, I hear my voters,” Yancey said after the hearing. “And also we had a lot of people who voted for us, some who I suspected crossed over who maybe were going to vote one way but then voted for me because of what we were able to do for them in the community, working for them,” Yancey said.
