During the hand recount, Fayette County uncovered 2,755 votes that were not included in the initial count. Secretary of State official Gabriel Sterling said those ballots were scanned onto a card, but those votes were never uploaded into the initial count. He says there were several backups designed to catch this issue and that it falls to workers who didn’t follow procedure.
Of the votes that are now being added to the total, 1,577 were for President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
, 1,128 for Joe
Foreign Policy Whiz KidBiden
...Candidate for president in 2020. Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids....
and the rest were for Jo Jorgenson or write-ins. That changes the margin in the state by under 500 votes. with Biden now leading Trump by 12,929 votes.
Fayette is the second county to report an issue with missing votes. On Monday, Floyd County uncovered 2,600 votes that were missed during the initial count on election night. The Secretary of State’s office said it was human error and called for the elections director in the county to step down. An investigation has been opened in the county.
Those votes changed the margin by about 800 in favor of President Trump. The margin was similar in the Perdue-Ossoff race and will not affect the runoff, Secretary of State Official Gabriel Sterling said.
Sterling said they are also investigating a potential memory card with 224 votes on it in Walton County that may have been missed.
Counties across the state have spent days recounting each ballot. More than 5 million ballots were cast in the state of Georgia.
All counties must be completed by midnight Wednesday so the state can certify its election results by Friday.
The Secretary of State’s office also opened two investigations in Fulton County. The first is into how the water leak at State Farm Arena was handled, and the second is how election monitors were handled.
Sterling emphasized that a reason for this audit is to catch problems such as these and investigate any potential issues before they certify the vote.
Of the other counties that have completed their recounts, here is the breakdown of the results:
- 57 counties had no deviations from their original ballot count21 counties were either plus or minus one off the original ballot count
- 32 counties are off by single digit numbers and are being investigated
- 32 counties are off by single digit numbers and are being investigated