Manassas City, VA : Mismatch between 2021 Absentee Counts and Machine Tape Records

By law in VA copies of the return sheets and machine tapes, or “Statement of Results” (SOR), from tabulation machines are public record and must be made available for 60 days after the election. (see VA 24.2-658) A grassroots team of a number of volunteers (coordinated through Virginia First Audits) made a concerted effort to collect images of a number of these tapes for specific localities of interest. I have been going through these tapes and comparing the results they show with the official results presented by the VA Department of Elections. The 60 day window ends Jan 1, 2022. If you would like to assist in recording and preserving SOR and Tape information, please see this telegram channel https://t.me/VA2021ElectionEvidence/139.

The reported totals of counted votes on the tapes should match exactly to what is reported as counted votes by the VA Department of Elections, after correctly omitting over-votes/under-votes and separating out provisional ballots (which is simple to do with the way VA reported its data). I have confirmed this should be the case via multiple email and phone conversations with election experts and officials, in an effort to make sure that I wasn’t missing some obvious process or fact that could account for the discrepancies.

We were not allowed to photograph the SOR for Manassas City, but we were allowed to view and transcribe the results by hand. Myself and two other volunteers viewed and transcribed these results on 12-23-2021. There is only 1 congressional district in Manassas City, so there is only one set of Central Absentee Precinct data, and there are 6 physical precincts.

SOR and Machine Tape Data:

PRECINCT	Tape Democratic	Tape Liberation	Tape Republican	Tape UNDEFINED	Total
## Provisional	13	1	2	0	16
##AB – Central Absentee Precinct	902	14	249	1	1166
##EV – Central Absentee Precinct	2134	20	1592	4	3750
##PE – Central Absentee Precinct	28	1	13	0	42
001 – DEAN	535	8	375	0	918
002 – WEEMS	553	16	564	0	1133
003 – METZ	568	8	635	2	1213
004 – HAYDON	527	8	582	2	1119
005 – BALDWIN	461	8	482	3	954
006 – ROUND	423	2	552	2	979

VA Dept of Elections Data (Certified Official Election Results):

PRECINCT	VDOE Democratic	VDOE Liberation	VDOE Republican	VDOE UNDEFINED	Total
## Provisional	13	1	2	0	16
##AB – Central Absentee Precinct	913	15	251	1	1180
##EV – Central Absentee Precinct	2134	20	1592	4	3750
##PE – Central Absentee Precinct	28	1	15	0	44
001 – DEAN	535	8	375	0	918
002 – WEEMS	553	16	564	0	1133
003 – METZ	568	8	635	2	1213
004 – HAYDON	527	8	582	2	1119
005 – BALDWIN	461	8	482	3	954
006 – ROUND	423	2	552	2	979

Results:

PRECINCT	(VDOE-Tape) Democratic	(VDOE-Tape) Liberation	(VDOE-Tape) Republican	(VDOE-Tape) UNDEFINED	Total	% Diff from VDOE Total
## Provisional	0	0	0	0	0	0.00%
##AB – Central Absentee Precinct	11	1	2	0	14	1.19%
##EV – Central Absentee Precinct	0	0	0	0	0	0.00%
##PE – Central Absentee Precinct	0	0	2	0	2	4.55%
001 – DEAN	0	0	0	0	0	0.00%
002 – WEEMS	0	0	0	0	0	0.00%
003 – METZ	0	0	0	0	0	0.00%
004 – HAYDON	0	0	0	0	0	0.00%
005 – BALDWIN	0	0	0	0	0	0.00%
006 – ROUND	0	0	0	0	0	0.00%