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In 1945, a judge voided an entire county’s election returns in one statewide race
The lawsuit by the loser of the Republican city council primary in Lynchburg that seeks to void the election is rare, but not unprecedented. An alert reader — former Del. Watkins Abbitt Jr. of Appomattox County — calls my attention to one of the most …