floyd county georgia election results - georgia recount results - 3,000 ADDITIONAL VOTES DISCOVERED
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floyd county georgia election results - georgia recount results - 3,000 ADDITIONAL VOTES DISCOVERED
The Georgia Secretary of State's office is sending an investigator to Floyd County first thing Tuesday, to help determine what happened to throw the Presidential election count off by 2,500 ballots.
It's not enough to change Georgia's results in a significant way, but officials are demanding an explanation.
"It will be corrected, but this is unacceptable," Floyd County Commission Chair Scotty Hancock said Monday.
Hancock said elections officials are working with Dominion Voting Systems to determine where the breakdown occurred. They're waiting for the company to find out who was logged into the computer at the time.
"It was either their rep or our rep. And when we find out who was responsible, we will take action," he said.
Floyd County Chief Elections Clerk Robert Brady could not be reached for comment Monday night.
Reports that a memory card was not removed from a machine are disputed. Local elections officials said a replacement scanner used at the Floyd County Administration Building for early voting apparently did not tabulate some of the ballots.
Board of Elections Chairman Tom Rees said the hand count added over 2,500 more votes than were registered by computers on election night and the following morning.
According to Floyd County GOP Chairman Luke Martin, and tentatively confirmed by Rees, there were an additional 1,643 votes for Republican President Donald Trump, 865 for Democrat President-elect Joe Biden and 16 for Libertarian Jo Jorgensen.
According to the Secretary of State's website: 27,120 Floyd County residents cast a ballot for Trump, 10,972 for Biden and 496 for Jorgensen. The newly reported ballots aren't included in those totals.
Biden won the state by over 14,000 votes, a slim margin in a race where just under 5 million Georgians cast a ballot.
Rees said the absentee by mail votes have all checked out, as has the in-person election day voting. The difference was in early voting ballots from that particular replacement scanner at the administration building.
The replacement scanner was used after the original scanner jammed and was taken out of service. The ballots from the original scanner were successfully entered into the system and votes were counted.
The Georgia Secretary of State's office is sending an investigator to Floyd County first thing Tuesday, to help determine what happened to throw the Presidential election count off by 2,500 ballots.
It's not enough to change Georgia's results in a significant way, but officials are demanding an explanation.
"It will be corrected, but this is unacceptable," Floyd County Commission Chair Scotty Hancock said Monday.
Hancock said elections officials are working with Dominion Voting Systems to determine where the breakdown occurred. They're waiting for the company to find out who was logged into the computer at the time.
"It was either their rep or our rep. And when we find out who was responsible, we will take action," he said.
Floyd County Chief Elections Clerk Robert Brady could not be reached for comment Monday night.
Reports that a memory card was not removed from a machine are disputed. Local elections officials said a replacement scanner used at the Floyd County Administration Building for early voting apparently did not tabulate some of the ballots.
Board of Elections Chairman Tom Rees said the hand count added over 2,500 more votes than were registered by computers on election night and the following morning.
According to Floyd County GOP Chairman Luke Martin, and tentatively confirmed by Rees, there were an additional 1,643 votes for Republican President Donald Trump, 865 for Democrat President-elect Joe Biden and 16 for Libertarian Jo Jorgensen.
According to the Secretary of State's website: 27,120 Floyd County residents cast a ballot for Trump, 10,972 for Biden and 496 for Jorgensen. The newly reported ballots aren't included in those totals.
Biden won the state by over 14,000 votes, a slim margin in a race where just under 5 million Georgians cast a ballot.
Rees said the absentee by mail votes have all checked out, as has the in-person election day voting. The difference was in early voting ballots from that particular replacement scanner at the administration building.
The replacement scanner was used after the original scanner jammed and was taken out of service. The ballots from the original scanner were successfully entered into the system and votes were counted.