Is Obenshain Making Up NonExistent Problems So That He Can Steal Election?

Mark Obenshain - A Cheat and Liar?

I often say that no one lies more than the "godly Christian" crowd.  And more or less the same rule applies to extremist Republican candidates who wrap themselves in candidate a clock of religiosity even as they do violence to the true Gospel message.  Mark Obenshain, the failed GOP candidate for Virginia Attorney General, seems to fit this norm.  Why do I say this?  Because Obenshain is trying to allege that there were security issues involving ballots in Fairfax County even though the Republican Electoral Board secretary for Fairfax County Brian Schoeneman has stated that no such security issues exist.  The Daily Press looks at Obenshain's apparent effort to fabricate "problems" so that he can try to invalidate votes.  It's disgusting, but welcome to today's GOP.  Here are article highlights:

State Sen. Mark Obenshain, R-Harrisonburg, is asking the special court overseeing the recount of the attorney general's race to hold off counting a large number of ballots from Fairfax County because measures to keep them secure after the election were not followed.

His request involves part of some 115 boxes of election material out of the 869 now in the custody of the clerk of the Fairfax County Circuit Court. He asked the court to set those ballots aside and not recount them for now until the court decides whether the ballots were secure. 

Fairfax County Electoral Board secretary Brian Schoeneman said all the ballots involved were held in the board's warehouse.

"The good news is that those ballots were still secure," he said. "Our warehouse has security and is monitored and it's my understanding that the ballots were locked in the precinct carts, so no one could have accessed them. We're still determining why this happened, but it's most likely election officer error."

He said the problem was that two precincts did not follow the proper procedure. Instead of making sure their ballots were taken to the courthouse, election officials locked the ballots in their precinct carts and returned them to the Electoral Board's secure warehouse.

The voter registrar's staff discovered them and took them to the courthouse.  The two precincts, Virginia Run and Tysons, reported a total of 1,072 votes for Obenshain and 1,071 for Herring, according to the State Board of Election's official results.

Quentin Kidd, a political scientist at Christopher Newport University, said the motion follows a pattern in other requests by Obenshain's campaign to the recount court, such as access to electronic poll books.

"My guess is they are looking for any and every mistake," he said. The narrow margin of Herring's victory makes every ballot seem worth fighting over, Kidd said. That's especially so in Fairfax County, the state's largest locality, which gave both Herring and Gov.-elect Terry McAuliffe the votes they needed to win.

Let's be clear about one thing.  Obenshain ran a slick but totally dishonest campaign and lied non-stop about his extremism, pretending to be a moderate.  Now, the lying campaign having failed, he is lying again  in an attempt to steal the election from Mark Herring.  Do we really want someone so dishonest and amoral as Obenshain in the office of Attorney General?  I think not.   In my opinion, tawdry whore make many of the "godly folk" and individuals like Obenshain look like pillars of virtue.