A spokesman for the Fairfax County (Va.) Elections Office refused to comment Thursday when asked by The Washington Stand about multiple allegations on social media of mail-in voting improprieties in the Commonwealth’s redistricting proposal referendum.

“We have no comment,” spokesman Shawn Stuart replied when asked about the late reporting of 35,000 mail-in ballots, all of which cast votes in support of the redistricting proposal that would replace the state’s current congressional district configurations that produced six Democratic victors and four Republican winners in the 2024 election. The redrawn map is expected to result in a 10-to-1 advantage for Democrats.

The final count showed “yes” received 51.5% of the total votes cast (1,575,331), compared to 48.5% for the “no” votes cast (1,486,239).

Fairfax County is an overwhelmingly Democratic Northern Virginia county populated mostly by active and retired federal civil servants, as well as political activists associated with mostly left-wing nonprofit groups and members of professional educators’ unions that are overwhelmingly Democratic. The new configuration uses four chunks of Fairfax voters to create half of the new Democratic-oriented districts, including one that stretches from the county near the nation’s capital all the way across the state to the border with West Virginia.

The referendum resulted in a narrow victory for the redistricting proposal that attracted millions of dollars in contributions for the “yes” camp, including radio, television, and social media advertisements featuring Democratic stars like former President Barack Obama. Virginia Democratic Governor Abigail Spanberger had vowed during her 2025 campaign to not back a new redistricting effort but reversed herself within hours of being sworn in as the state’s chief executive.

Polls had barely closed when social media posts began appearing, particularly on X, and pointing to the 35,000 last-minute “yes” mail-in votes in Fairfax County.

“This is a MASSIVE outlier compared to every other county in the state,” wrote ShadowJ on X. “The number is too perfect — exactly 35,000 on the dot. No one believes this is legitimate. Democrats are pulling the same mail-in ballot games again and the American people are FED UP with it. This is straight-out theft of our elections and it is DISGUSTING.”

Another X poster, The Lone Raccoon, calculated that for the top 15 Virginia counties that supported the referendum and taking the difference in each county between the “yes” and “no” votes, he determined the percentage of the overall winning margin for the new redistricting configuration. Fairfax County came out with 149% of the winning margin.

“These are the top 15 counties who voted ‘yes,’ ordered by their ‘share’ of the current margin (which is about 100,000 votes). Stick with me here, please, to do this I calculated how many more ‘yes’ votes than ‘no,’ and then divided that into the 100,000 differences. You will see that Fairfax contributed 149% towards the ‘yes’ victory. Why is this more than 100%? Because there were many counties who voted for ‘no’ and these offset the ‘yes’ counties. Bottom line, I haven't seen anything this extreme. Ever. The difference in votes in Fairfax exceeded the state difference by 1.5x. Meaning the other counties didn't count. The election yesterday could have just been held in Fairfax. Everyone else? Sorry, you were disenfranchised. Better luck next time,” The Lone Raccoon stated.

The second highest percentage in The Lone Raccoon’s calculation was Arlington at 49.2%, followed by Richmond City at 48.1%, Prince William with 36.9%, and Henrico at 35.4%. The next five included Loudoun (31%), Alexandria (29.6%), Norfolk (23.6%), Chesterfield (18.7%), and Hampton (17.2%).

The SCIF observed in a post that it “looks like mail-in ballots were used again to rig the election in Virginia. The vote count also jumped 64,000 ‘yes’ votes in 5 mins. Sometimes, you have to let them show you how they cheat, to catch them cheating, to charge them for cheating.”

President Donald Trump also blasted the referendum results, saying in a Truth Social post that “All day long Republicans were winning, the Spirit was unbelievable, until the very end when, of course, there was a massive mail-in ballot drop. Where have I heard that before — and the Democrats eked out another crooked victory. Six to five goes to 10 to one, and yet the presidential election in November was close to a 50-50 split.”

In an interview with Rep. Andy Ogles, the Tennessee Republican said, “It is a broken system, but if you also look at the math, I mean early voting, day-of voting, it was a fairly even-split and the mail-in ballots are, you know, disproportionately out of skew from the population at large, so that tells you that something is off, there was a coordinated, manufactured result with the mail-ins.”

Shortly after the referendum was completed, a Tazewell County judge found the voting to be unconstitutional and enjoined state and local election officials against certifying the election results, pending what are expected to be multiple appeals.