Councilman Ian Lovejoy is now shy of 75 votes of holding onto his seat on the Manassas City Council, and a recount is likely.
When the polls closed on Election Day, poll workers failed to add together the vote totals from the two optical scanning voting machines used at the city’s Metz Precinct. When the numbers were added together the next morning, Lovejoy (R) picked up 100 more votes putting his race into recount territory.