Tally in Virginia AG race continues to change The results in the extraordinarily tight Virginia attorney general race continued to change Monday, as Democrat state Sen. Mark Herring picked up 132 previously uncounted votes in Richmond that appeared to give him a slight edge over Republican state Sen. Mark Obenshain. Obenshain (R) had started the day with a 17-vote lead of out 2.2 million cast. But nearly a week after the Nov. 5 election, officials continued to discover uncounted votes during routine canvassing and said the contest, which appears almost certainly headed to a recount, could seesaw again. As jurisdictions across the state continued to comb through votes, attorneys from both parties descended on elections offices in Fairfax County and Richmond, and the campaigns said they were cautiously optimistic but bracing for a long, drawn-out battle. "We're always excited to see the movement go to our favor and we're just going to make sure over the next few weeks and however long this plays out that every single vote counts," said Ashley Bauman, press secretary for the Democratic Party of Virginia. Because I think in the end, we feel confident that our candidate will be on the winning side. The razor-thin margin between the two candidates, at 0.0008 percent on Monday, has brought new urgency to the normally mundane process of accounting for all votes cast in the statewide elections. In Richmond, city election officials found more than 200 votes in the attorney general's race that had gone uncounted on election night, most of them from a single voting machine. Herring took the bulk of those votes, which also included a handful of previously overlooked paper ballots, netting a 132-vote boost to his side. But an attorney for Obenshain's campaign pressed the board at the end of its two-hour meeting to provide data from the electronic poll books used to check in voters when they arrived at voting places--a move that officials said would require a court order. "What we're trying to do for poll books is just be sure that the ledger matches, that there's just as many votes as there are voters," said Republican Party of Virginia spokesman Garren Shipley. That has to balance out. There's some places that just statistically don't quite look right to us. We want to be careful, we want to go through it with a fine-tooth comb and just be sure. Registrar Kirk Showalter said the adjustments to the vote totals were typical of any election, but these had drawn greater-than-usual interest because the nature of the attorney general's race. The review drew four TV cameras and about 25 observers to the registrar's office in Richmond's City Hall. They crammed into the office foyer and spilled into the hallway as the three-member board and Showalter counted and recounted the votes from those precincts. "The process that you've just seen today is absolutely typical of what we go through in every election," Showalter said. I think there's particular attention because, as I understand it, the votes are so close.