The race for the 5th District seat in the United States House of Representatives between incumbent six-term Virgil H. Goode Jr. (R-Rocky Mount) and challenger Tom Perriello (D-Ivy) is still undecided. For both Goode, a 62-year-old attorney, and Perriello, a 34-year-old national security consultant, numbers have been up and down - and those fluctuations may continue for awhile.
On Election Tuesday, both the Associated Press and CNN predicted that Goode would win, but Perriello was leading slightly late that night. On Wednesday, the State Board of Elections was listing Goode as the winner; on Thursday, Perriello was back in the lead. By Friday, with Goode trailing by 745 votes, he declared himself the winner.
Perriello’s announcement was, according to his Communications Director Jessica Barba, “based on the completion of the canvasses. There was one locality left to report as of Friday afternoon.” But that same day, Goode said in a statement released to the media that “a number of reporting irregularities” have “cast doubt on the reported totals.”
As of Monday, Perriello was still in the lead, but Goode was “closing the gap,” says campaign spokesperson Jerr Rosenbaum.
Perriello is “407 votes ahead,” Rosenbaum said at 11:24 a.m. Monday. But by press time Tuesday, the error that had turned up 300-some-odd votes for Goode was found to be an error and Perriello was back to a 745-vote lead. “This is a perfect example of why we wait until the State Board of Election certifies the final vote count on November 24th before coming to any judgments about the outcome of this election.”
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