Not long after the polls closed Tuesday night and Republican Scott Garrett was declared the winner over Democratic incumbent Shannon Valentine in the 23rd District House of Delegates election, I received this e-mail:

“We now know where ABC-TV got the idea for ‘V’, the show about the ‘visitors’ — Liberty University. They pretend to be our friends, but they’re not. They’re trying to take over our world.”

This was, of course, an obvious reference to the fact that Liberty mobilized as many students as possible and bussed them to the Heritage Elementary School polling place, presumably to vote for Garrett. Valentine was in the lead until the numbers from that precinct rolled in.