Correcting Contributions Story

We pulled information from the wrong tab.

When we goof, we do it up big! We are sending out this Extra edition to correct incorrect information that we pulled out of the Virginia Public Access Project site for the House 71st District race.

We pulled up the wrong tab and thus under counted the total receipts – both money and in-kind contributions – reported by the candidates to the State Board of Elections for the time period from April 1 through June 5.

Here are the corrected numbers:

Democratic Challenger Jessica Anderson took in the largest amount of contributions -- $143,721. That includes both cash contributions and in-kind contributions, which are goods or services offered free of charge or at a discount to help a campaign.

Incumbent Amanda Batten took in $51,713 during the same period.

The largest chunk of Anderson’s cash contributions -- $98,272 – came from 247 donors who gave cash contributions of more than $100 apiece. But the majority of her contributors -- 1,081 -- were small donors who provided cash contributions of $100 or less, for a total of $28,613.

Batten received $46,950 in cash contributions from 62 contributors who ponied up more than $100 each. Another 35 cash contributors donated $2,595.

The largest amount of contributions to Batten came from individuals who reported they worked in real estate or construction, followed by miscellaneous, then employees of technology and communications firms and those working in energy and natural resources.

The largest number of contributors to Anderson were listed in the miscellaneous category, followed by technology and communications, public employees and political, law and health care.

We regret the error.