FREDERICKSBURG -- With Virginia's General Assembly now in session, the Democrats, who nearly clinched a majority in the House of Delegates, rallied Sunday in Fredericksburg calling for a change to the state's voter laws.
Joshua Cole, who nearly beat Republican Bob Thomas in a recount election for the 28th District in Fredericksburg and Stafford County, spoke at the rally where organizers called for more funding to audit the State Board of Elections to find out why 86 voters in the 28th district were mistakenly given ballots for the neighboring 88th District.
"I want you to understand that maybe we were fighting right now and maybe we may have lost this battle, and that's OK because guess what: the war is not over yet. We are still fighting. We are still pushing, and we are still marching, and I want to let you know that I stopped by here in Hurkamp Park in Fredericksburg, Virginia to let you all know, to let the system know, and let the powers be know that we aren't going anywhere. We are still going to fight. We are still going to knock on your doors. We're going to e-mail you. We're going to come visit you in your offices and we're going to tell you that we are going to keep getting on your everlasting nerves until equality matters until voting rights matters and until everybody's voice is heard properly," said Cole.
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