Activists cite tabulation flaw in mail-in ballots in Georgia
Source: Associated Press
By FRANK BAJAK
42 minutes ago
Faulty software or poorly calibrated vote-tabulation scanners used to count mailed-in ballots in this weeks chaotic Georgia primary may have prevented thousands of votes from being counted, election officials and voting integrity activists say.
The issue was identified in at least four counties, DeKalb, Morgan, Clarke and Cherokee, according to officials who discovered them, including activists who have sued the state for alleged election mismanagement.
The fact that it is in multiple counties tells me that its probably systemic, Richard DeMillo, a Georgia Tech computer scientist who has testified for the plaintiffs, because identical scanners and software were used to count all absentee ballots across the state. DeMillo said the only way to know for sure is through audits.
A top Georgia voting official, voting implementation manager Gabriel Sterling, said Friday that he had seen no evidence yet of the issue and found it difficult to believe the reports were an active description of what is happening on the ground.
These are activists who have an ax to grind, he said.
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Budi
(15,325 posts)A top Georgia voting official, voting implementation manager Gabriel Sterling, said Friday that he had seen no evidence yet of the issue and found it difficult to believe the reports were an active description of what is happening on the ground.
These are activists who have an ax to grind, he said.
Igel
(35,320 posts)Today I learned at a prevalence of 2.5% is "systemic."
Yeehah
(4,588 posts)Those four counties represent 12% of Georgia's population.
ancianita
(36,095 posts)LiberalArkie
(15,719 posts)stopdiggin
(11,317 posts)to learn how to "completely fill in one circle with pencil or pen?" This generally starts in grade school?
People seemed to pick it up pretty easily when it came to their Lotto tickets ...
by far the larger (and probably more valid) concern here is the completely transparent debacle involving in-person voting at inadequate and dysfunctional polling stations.