An email from a cousin in Virginia. He is somewhat a military historian (both parents buried in Arlington) and certainly very well versed on George Washington...one of the earliest racists!
Anyway, he forwarded on an email that is an opinion piece
https://www.conservativehq.org/post/how-conservatives-won-virginia. Here is a snippet relative to your comment.
"Focusing on Election Integrity: The Youngkin campaign understood from the get-go that vote fraud is a central element of Democrat campaigns and that election integrity and ballot security are not something that only happens on Election Day.
The Youngkin campaign began their ballot security operation by engaging with national experts on election integrity, such as attorneys Cleta Mitchell, J. Christian Adams and others, and worked tirelessly to protect the integrity of the election.
“I think we need to make sure that people trust these voting machines,” Youngkin said at an event hosted by a Richmond civics group, reported by POLITICO. “I grew up in a world where you have an audit every year, in businesses you have an audit. So let's just audit the voting machines, publish it so everybody can see it.”
By making election integrity an issue Youngkin connected with a key group of Trump supporters who were unintimidated and willing to do whatever it took to make sure there was no election stealing fraud – including being trained as poll workers and poll watchers.
They weren’t scrambling on Election Day when Democrats tried to bar Republicans from voting if they didn’t have a mask; within minutes of the first report they could put out an alert confirming that was against the law. There were observers focused on ballot drop boxes in Fairfax County and elsewhere and there was no possibility trained Republican election officials and poll watchers were going to leave vote counting locations to facilitate any mysterious 3:00 a.m. ballot drops, or be distracted by Election Night watermain breaks."
