Lynchburg, Virginia – RINO Central?

The RINOS (Republicans In Name Only) would appear to be in the saddle in Lynchburg, Virginia. Poll watchers have alleged widespread election fraud in the dual primary held there and elsewhere in Virginia last Tuesday. Problems involving a City Council primary have “gone national,” but one other problem hasn’t – the Fifth Congressional District primary race. In fact, national newshounds watching that city council race might be looking at the shiny object. The real story is the primary contest between Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.-5th) and Virginia Sen. John McGuire (R-10th).

Allegations out of Lynchburg

On Tuesday, June 18, 2024, Virginia held a dual primary, with Republican and Democratic races taking place in most jurisdictions. Republicans ran a Senate primary in every jurisdiction – called a unit in Virginia, which could be either a county or an independent city. (Capt. Hung Cao USN won the nomination to challenge Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., with 61 percent of the vote.) In addition, every U.S. Congressional district had a primary to nominate a challenger of the opposite party to the incumbent. The Fifth U.S. Congressional District was the notable – and bitterly contentious – exception. Was? Make that is. For in addition to a primary to select a Democrat seeking to pick up that seat, a Republican State Senator challenged the incumbent U.S. Representative.

Lynchburg, Virginia is an independent city, hence a unit unto itself. Jim Hoft of The Gateway Pundit carried detailed allegations of election irregularities that could amount to election fraud. X influencer George Behizy carried the most sensational allegations.

Hoft concentrated on the City Council primary race between Peter Alexander and Chris Faraldi, contending for the Republican nomination for Ward Four. This morning Faraldi led Alexander, 1023 to 1002 – a margin of twenty-one votes. But both campaigns expressed outrage at things their respective observers had seen, and how the Election Board treated them.

But George Behizy concentrated on the bigger meat: the Good-McGuire race.

BREAKING: Poll watchers in Lynchburg, Virginia have released BOMBSHELL proof of fraud that took place in Tuesday’s election. They were prevented from seeing mail-in ballot processing and records show ballot box seals broken and ballots counted without anyone watching.

Election officials also admitted to violating state law, “Election staff confirmed that it had been standard practice to allow the ballot drop box to be stuffed until Friday, which violates Virginia law.”

They also tried to silence the observers at the Friday Election Board Emergency Meeting by telling them not to discuss the events with the media.

“Staff also stated the drop box was emptied Friday morning, but did not produce records documenting access to the drop box until nearly an hour after our observer requested receipts. It is still unclear how many ballots were collected from the drop box, and we may never know how many were stuffed in the drop box after the polls closed.”

It looks like the Republican establishment cheated to take Bob Good out of [C]ongress. Lynchburg is the biggest city in Virginia’s 5th congressional district and allegations just like this forced Bridgeport, Connecticut to redo the Democrat primary. STOP THE STEAL!

Justice for Bob Good.

Further allegations by Bob Good and others

WTVR-TV (Channel 6, CBS-TV, Richmond, Virginia) has a running tally of primary results in the Senate race and all districts. (The Democrats did not have a Senate primary, because no one dared challenge Tim Kaine for renomination.) At present, State Sen. McGuire leads Rep. Good 31,459 to 31,126 – a margin of “victory” of 333 votes. Because this is less than one percent, Rep. Good has the right to demand a recount. He has announced his intention to do so, as soon as all units finish tallying mail-in ballots. Not one media organ, legacy or alternative, has called the race.

On Thursday, Rep. Good announced that he would demand not only a full recount but also a full investigation.

Your editor ran the primary in a precinct in the First Congressional District as Chief of Precinct. While there, he overheard several voters wondering why Rep. Good was not on the ballot. Your editor and his crew explained that the precinct involved was in a different District. In fact, the Fifth District includes the westernmost quarter of Hanover County; the First District includes the rest.

Virginia Tea Party Summit

Yesterday your editor attended the Virginia Tea Party Summer Summit – where Rep. Good, on a last-minute invitation, addressed the meeting. There he told the same story George Behizy told: that election officials left ballot drop boxes unattended through Friday. Good spoke of more than one drop box, instead of the one of which Behizy quoted “election staff” as speaking. Good also made other, more serious allegations of election equipment connected to Wi-Fi networks. This violates every standard with which your editor is familiar. He also spoke of “hidden modems,” and “alarms” that his accredited poll watchers sounded.

Wireless modem connections to election equipment have been a consistent allegation since the Election of 2020. Lynchburg buys its electronic voting machines (ballot marking devices, scanner-tabulators, and electronic pollbooks) from Unisyn Voting Solutions. They boast a 2005 certification from the Election Assistance Commission and prominently advertise the security of their system. Among other things, they boast of using the Linux open-source operating system and not a proprietary system like Microsoft Windows.

Multiple persons connected, directly or indirectly, with the Bob Good campaign confirm that Rep. Good will look hard for solid evidence of fraud. If he finds any, then he will seek to have a judge order a rerunning of the primary.

More details from Lynchburg

The Fifth Congressional District is a large, rectilinear district that includes Lynchburg (the largest city) and about twenty counties or parts of counties. Bob Good expressed concerns not only out of Lynchburg bur also out of Albemarle County, another Fifth District county.

Virginia’s primaries are open, so a voter may vote in either primary merely by asking for either Party’s ballot. Peter Alexander’s campaign complained specifically about “crossover” voting – Democrats voting in the Republican primary. The Democratic primary in the Fifth District saw fewer than 25,000 votes, compared to more than 62,500 Republican primary voters.

Chris Faraldi seemed to echo Peter Alexander’s concerns. But he also credited the John McGuire campaign with alerting them to the problem.

That might or might not be a code phrase indicating mutual cooperation where the voters might not appreciate it. Alexander accuses Faraldi, the Mayor of Lynchburg, of running a “tax-and-spend” administration. John McGuire, for his part, gets his financing from donors allied with former Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), former Speaker of the House. McCarthy allegedly is on a “revenge tour” to punish those (including Bob Good) who ousted him from the Speakership.

More from the Virginia Tea Party Summit

In his remarks to the Virginia Tea Party Summit, Bob Good did more than allege election irregularities in Tuesday’s primary. He also alleged that McGuire belongs to a Republican establishment that is more interested in winning elections than in winning “The Game.” Democrats, he said, are more than willing to lose elections by aggressive pursuit of their socialistic policies.

This is because Republicans, even if they were to win the “trifecta” of House, Senate and White House, would not be willing to reverse socialistic and “woke” policy initiatives of Democrats. Republicans, he said, want only “as many people as possible to wear [their] football jersey.” What matters to the Republican establishment is not now people vote but how they identify. They seek power, but are not willing to exert it for the country’s good. (Perhaps they exert it merely to shake down lobbyists, and occasionally “cause oriented” organizations, for campaign cash.)

That, says Good, is why Republicans will never press for a bill to forbid abortion nationwide, or even to secure the border. And it is why they have regarded the House Freedom Caucus as thorns in their sides.

If my opponent is elected this fall, the Establishment will put him on a lot of committees designed to steer money his way. And if somebody is willing to spend that amount of money, they’re going to expect my opponent to fall in line – and he will.

Analysis

Bob Good is seeking his third term in Congress and is chairman of the House Freedom Caucus. John McGuire won election to the Virginia Senate last November and unpleasantly surprised everyone by challenging Good in the primary. The major complaint: John McGuire has not established himself as a State Senator before seeking election to Congress. Worse, he announced his primary challenge when the General Assembly session had barely begun. Some witnesses have compared this to landing a non-ranking executive position at a company and abruptly seeking its presidency on one’s first day.

McGuire has somehow wangled an endorsement from Donald Trump. He did this in part by alleging that Good supported the candidate of Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.). McGuire has definitely so alleged in campaign flyers that your editor has received. But in informal remarks at the Republican Party of Virginia Quadrennial Convention, held at Hampton Roads, Virginia on May 31-June 1, 2024, Rep. Good said he only said he would support Gov. DeSantis if the Florida governor received the nomination. Of course, DeSantis withdrew early in Republican primary season. But John McGuire never stopped repeating the Ron DeSantis endorsement allegation.

This ugly primary fight concerns Republicans State-wide, and apparently even Virginia’s Republican National Committee representative (female) is involved. At a Party social event last night, RNC Committeewoman Patti Lyman urged attendees to let the “process,” meaning a recount, go forward without recrimination, according to attendees.