That's what I was thinking. They'll "find" several thousand votes, just enough to swing the race to the Democrat. It's their modus operandi.
I wondered last night if there would suddenly be enough votes to fall off a turnip truck somewhere, to put McAuliffe over the top. Obviously that didn't happen. But in retrospect, I have to wonder if it would even be logistically possible, for the Democrats/liberals/socialists/whatever to keep rigging elections time, and time, and time again. In 2020, you had a big, noisy, messy, chaotic decoupage of 51 separate elections, turned into rabbit hash by the pandemic and early voting (and changing rules all over the place WRT that kind of voting), and there was a lot of room for shenanigans, this fueled by Trump Derangement Syndrome from Day One. Put another way, the "other side" pulled out everything they had, legal or otherwise, and weren't afraid to use it. Was there enough fraud to throw the election? We may never know. Sidney Powell couldn't produce her "kraken", and Mike Lindell's objections ---I hate to say it, I like the guy --- are all over the place, make little sense, and are brutally unwatchable after a few minutes.
Virginia is a confusing, quirky state with no huge population centers, aside from Fairfax County (I use that as a
pars pro toto for FC, Arlington, Alexandria, Fairfax City, Falls Church,
et al, i.e., "northern Virginia"), and FC is about the most disjointed, transient, incoherent place imaginable. I lived there for several years, so I know whereof I speak. It's basically endless neighborhoods blurring into each other, not unlike the Atlanta suburbs, no real unifying theme other than traffic and huge housing costs for what you get. And everything west of Richmond is basically Arkansas, some stunningly beautiful country, but blood-red MAGA-land. (Charlottesville proper would be an exception.)