CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – A DC law firm along with a racial justice think tank have filed suit on behalf of five Waynesboro registered voters seeking to stop a pledge by the city electoral board majority not to certify machine-counted November election results. The Advancement Project and Crowell & Moring are suing in Waynesboro Circuit Court on behalf of five city voters — Jennifer Lewis, Ann Criser-Shedd, Greg Fife, Chris Graham, and Andrea Jackson. They’re requesting a court order requiring the officials certify Waynesboro votes.

They also ask the court to rule that the election officials’ decision not to certify the election results unless they prevail in a lawsuit filed in Waynesboro Circuit Court earlier in October seeking a mandatory hand-count of all ballots cast on Election Day violates the Virginia Constitution. A release by the plaintiffs says “Waynesboro is part of a troubling nationwide trend: County officials refusing, for one reason or another, to certify election results despite the legal requirement to tally votes and pass along the results to state officials.”
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