“I think we need to make sure that people trust these voting machines,” Youngkin said at a Monday event hosted by a Richmond civics group. “I grew up in a world where you have an audit every year — in businesses, you have an audit. So let's just audit the voting machines, publish it so everybody can see it.”
But the Virginia elections department already administered a post-election "risk-limiting audit," for the first time, following the 2020 general election. The process questioned the correctness of voting machines and confirmed President Joe Biden's victory in the state. Youngkin also bragged about his faith in post-election audits back in February, according to spokesman Matt Wolking, who said, "[Youngkin] will ensure Virginia continues to conduct audits going forward and that they are thorough, efficient, and accurate."
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Youngkin's Democratic challenger, former Gov. Terry McAuliffe, has sought to tie his opponent's view on voting to former President Donald Trump's claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election. Nevertheless, Youngkin recently said he would have endorsed the commonwealth's electoral votes for Biden even though he supported the former president.
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Despite McAuliffe praising Trump's "Big Lie" concerning the results of the 2020 election as leverage to downplay Youngkin's legitimacy, the Virginia Democrat once claimed that the Supreme Court was liable for hindering Al Gore from winning the 2000 election against George W. Bush.
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“At the end of the day, if all the votes were counted in Florida, that Al Gore would be president today,” McAuliffe said in a Feb. 4, 2001 interview on Meet the Press. “The Supreme Court stopped the counting of the votes, and if they’d let the count go on, Al Gore would have got the necessary votes.”
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A recent poll from Emerson College and Nexstar Media Group suggests the Nov. 2 Virginia gubernatorial election will be a much narrower race compared to the same poll one month before. McAuliffe leads with 49% of likely commonwealth voters, and Youngkin is behind at just 48%. The survey was conducted Oct. 1-3 among 620 likely Virginia voters.
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Since the result of the 2020 election, Trump has been outstanding in challenging the results.
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Pressure from the Trump camp has been so strong that officials in Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, and others have started investigations, despite the Justice Department under Attorney General William Barr finding no evidence to back the possibility of election fraud.