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Del. Nick Freitas, R-Culpeper, may have lost his last chance to get on the ballot for re-election.

But he said Thursday that he’s prepared to run a write-in campaign for the Virginia House District 30 seat if the State Board of Elections won’t forgive tardy paperwork filings, one by himself and one by a local Republican official — unforced errors that could hand a Republican seat to the Democrats.

“I don’t have any doubt that we will win a write-in campaign if that’s what we have to do,” Freitas said.

After a decision by the Virginia Department of Elections late last week, Freitas is almost out of options short of requesting a court get involved. Should he not make the ballot and be forced to run a write-in campaign, Democrats said they have chances of winning the seat in the fall, when they’re making a push to overturn the narrow GOP majority in the House.

“On the whole, this is a completely unnecessary hiccup for Republicans in what is already a tough year,” Larry Sabato, a political analyst at the University of Virginia, said in a Twitter message to the Richmond Times-Dispatch for this story. “Party leaders can’t be happy with Freitas and the local GOP committee.”