Democrat faces a voting challenge on an alleged incorrect address in Virginia

A new court submitted a democratic candidate for a highly contested seat of the delegates’ House of the Chamber of Delegates of Virginia does not live in the district which it seeks to represent, a dispute which could shape the control of the Chamber in 2026.

Three voters from the county of Stafford went to court to allege that the candidate Stacey Carroll does not live in the District 64 and instead in the 23 of the major neighboring Democrat and wishes it to have started the ballot.

The complainants Stephen Schwartz, Judith Anne Parker and Juliet Schweiter alleged that Carroll continues to live near the US-1 in Aquia, Virginia, at the southern end of the 23rd district, but applied for an address at around 7 miles in the southwest near Stafford House, Virginia, in the 64th.

Local residents ask the court to throw the recording of Carroll voters at Stafford’s address, which according to them, would disqualify the ballot.

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This address would have been registered with another family, and a 1966 decision by the Virginia Court puts the burden of proof of residence on the director of voters or the ballotural applicant, according to Mercury by Virginia.

Although apparently local materials, the result of the case could have large -scale implications for the final counting on election day, because the 100 seats of the Maison des Delegates are to be won. And the Democrats have achieved the rare achievement of the candidates who run in each of them, including republican seats reliably in the distant rural regions like Saint-Charles, Big Stone Gap and Tazewell.

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If his candidacy is held, Carroll will face the Republican del. Paul Milde de Stafford in a district which was closely opted for President Donald Trump in 2024 just under two points.

If she really lives in Aquia, her original district seat would be that of Democratic Del. Candi King of Prince William, a much safer and more suburban seat that opted for former vice-president Kamala Harris by around 66-31.

Equality loses in the chamber of delegates, which means that the Republicans only need three seats to win back the majority but cannot afford to lose tight races like that of Milde.

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The Democrats recognized the delegate House in the last elections in 2023, marking a majority of 52-48. The Republicans currently have a vacancy after the minority chief of house Todd Gilbert, R-Luray, resigned to briefly become a American lawyer for the Western district of Virginia.

The chances of Carroll to return the siege of Mildeh give the Republicans an additional road dam in their quest to take over the room.

They also align other closely contested races, notably at Hampton Roads.

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Del. AC Cordoza, R-POQUOSON, is the only black republican in the room and represents a district that Harris has just won.

The Republicans are at the laser focused on the headquarters, and governor Glenn Youngkin, Lieutenant-Governor WinSome Earle-Sears and the Lieutenant-Candidat of Governor John Reid all perplexed for Cordoza.

Like Exurban Stafford, Hampton Roads is eternally competitive. Democrats tend to have the advantage in state breeds, while Republicans, like outgoing representative Jennifer Kiggans, often prevail in federal competitions.

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Earle-Sears shocked the region in 2001 by winning a seat regularly owned by Democrat at Virginia Beach, launching it in the political conscience of the Commonwealth.

Several other seats in the region, which also include Norfolk, Portsmouth, Hampton, Chesapeake and Isle of Wight, are considered potential microphones for the opposing party.

Reid’s race should also weigh heavily on the chances of the Republicans to control Richmond beyond the governor’s headquarters.

While the Democrats control the upper room, Earle-Sears is the revolutionary vote.

Divided in the same way as the room, the supporting future of the Senate can be at stake depending on whether Reid can defeat the senator from the Ghazala Hashmi state, D-Chesterfield.

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Reid would break the links in favor of the Republicans, which means that they only have to regain two other seats in the Senate. Hashmi would do the opposite, which means that the GOP would need three.

Fox News Digital contacted the Carroll campaign to comment.