Ashburn VA Election Results: Voters Go To The Polls

ASHBURN, VA — Ashburn residents went to the polls Tuesday in their final chance to cast their vote in a number of races.

This year, Ashburn residents voted for president and vice president, U.S. senator and U.S. house member. Residents also voted on two amendments to the Virginia Constitution and a number of Loudoun County bond questions.

Former Vice President Joe Biden is the projected winner in Virginia, as called by the Associated Press at 7:36 p.m.

Immediately after polls closed, the Associated Press also called the U.S. Senate race in Virginia for Mark Warner. The senior senator won a third term by defeating Republican challenger Daniel Gade. Warner, is a former businessman who served as Virginia governor from 2002 to 2006, was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2008 and won re-election in 2014. Gade is a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel and amputee who now serves as an American University professor.

Amid concerns about possible exposure to the new coronavirus, many Ashburn voters had already cast absentee ballots or voted at the in-person voting site in the city.

A dispute broke out among Democratic and Republican Party volunteers in Ashburn over where they were setting up their tents and chairs in order to hand out sample ballots and literature. The elections precinct captain was able to calm the situation, although he plans to file an incident report with the Loudoun County elections office later Tuesday night.

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An Ashburn resident who voted for Trump told Patch she decided to vote on Election Day because she was concerned that her ballot might get tampered with or confiscated if she had mailed it in or place it in a drop box.

Mary Z. said she supports Trump because he made a lot of promises on the campaign trail in 2016 and has kept them. But she wishes the president would tone down the comments he makes on Twitter.

"Trump does say some questionable things and sometimes I want to go out there and punch him in the face and get his hands off his cell phone and get him off Twitter," she said. "But I'm for closing the borders like Trump. I'm all for legal immigration."

"I don't think Joe Biden is a bad person. He's just a puppet right now and I do not want Kamala Harris as president," she added. "I've read many places that they are planning on forcing Biden out pretty quickly and having Kamala Harris take over and I don't want that."

While much of the focus of the 2020 election coverage has been on the presidential race, Ashburn residents got to have their say in the House election.

In the 10th Congressional District race, Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D), the incumbent, believed that the most pressing issue right now is getting the coronavirus under control and supporting families and small businesses in need.

Andrews, Wexton’s Republican opponent, contended that the “coronavirus lockdowns have devastated businesses in Virginia’s 10th and across America.”

Here are the bond questions that were on the ballot in Loudoun:

Public schools bonds
Shall the County of Loudoun, Virginia contract a debt and issue its general obligation capital improvement bonds in the maximum principal amount of $123,755,000?

Public safety bonds
Shall the County of Loudoun, Virginia contract a debt and issue its general obligation capital improvement bonds in the maximum principal amount of $29,516,000?

Parks and recreation bonds
Shall the County of Loudoun, Virginia contract a debt and issue its general obligation capital improvement bonds in the maximum principal amount of $3,825,000?

Transportation bonds
Shall the County of Loudoun, Virginia contract a debt and issue its general obligation capital improvement bonds in the maximum principal amount of $151,210,000?