Some quick points on where things stand in Virginia:

With 2,548 of 2,557 precincts reporting — 99.65 percent — Democrat incumbent Sen. Mark Warner has 1,067,342 votes; GOP challenger Ed Gillespie has 1,050,534 votes.

In Virginia, there are no automatic recounts.

Only an apparent losing candidate can ask for a recount, and only if the difference between the apparent winning candidate and that apparent losing candidates is not more than one percent of the total votes cast for those two candidates.

With Warner at 49.11 percent, and Gillespie at 48.34 percent, Gillespie may (and almost certainly will) request a recount if the margin remains the same.

The losing candidate can request the recount only after the counties submit their final results and they’re certified, which occurs in about two weeks or so.

Virginia had a statewide recount just last year in its attorney-general race. Republican Mark Obenshain trailed Democrat Mark Herring by 165 votes out of 2.2 million cast. But the recount process found more and more Democratic votes, and when the lead grew to more than 800 votes, Obenshain conceded.