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Alhena

(3,030 posts)
Sat Nov 7, 2020, 08:29 PM Nov 2020

Ballot reporting error discovered in Fulton County, GA ... link

First of all, the true facts here are still not clear to me, but the Georgia Secretary of State (Republican) sent Georgia MAGAs into fits of joy when he tweeted that a reporting error had been discovered in Fulton County, which includes Atlanta.




This article says that the report from Fulton on Friday gave Joe 3k more votes:

"The updated vote from Fulton Friday night took Biden from an approx. 4,000 vote lead to approx. 7,000 vote lead. Roughly 5,000 votes were uploaded from the county."

https://abc7news.com/7730448/?ex_cid=TA_KGO_TW&taid=5fa73205658bce00018253c6&utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&utm_medium=trueAnthem&utm_source=twitter

But just now an update came in from Georgia that gave Joe 1500 more votes:

https://alex.github.io/nyt-2020-election-scraper/battleground-state-changes.html#

Could it be that the error hurt Joe? Unclear at this point.
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Celerity

(43,107 posts)
2. The RW is trying to extrapolate it it out to not only every district in GA, but to every state
Sat Nov 7, 2020, 08:35 PM
Nov 2020

nationwide that uses the same software.

they can FOAD

Alhena

(3,030 posts)
3. It won't- the Sec. of State said the error occurred on Friday, and 3k votes were reported then by
Sat Nov 7, 2020, 08:36 PM
Nov 2020

Fulton. Now, we know Fulton is heavily Democratic, so any votes that come from there will be heavily Biden. Worst case scenario, if all 3k ballots were taken away from Joe, he'd still have a 6k lead there. But I don't see how they could all be wrong.

And the error could have hurt Joe, and the 1500+ votes just added to his total in Georgia could be the correction for that.

The bottom line at this point is that we don't know.

sunonmars

(8,656 posts)
8. apparently its because a couple of ballots were missed and a few provisionals
Sat Nov 7, 2020, 09:37 PM
Nov 2020

But I don't trust these fuckers at all.

MR. ELECTABLE

(218 posts)
5. Newly added votes are not related
Sat Nov 7, 2020, 08:50 PM
Nov 2020

The newly added votes are from Dekalb county and have no relation to the Fulton county matter.

 

Marius25

(3,213 posts)
7. This makes me nervous.
Sat Nov 7, 2020, 09:30 PM
Nov 2020

I don't trust the GA SoS. I hope this isn't an attempt to flip Georgia back to Trump.

Renew Deal

(81,846 posts)
9. I'm not worried
Sat Nov 7, 2020, 09:40 PM
Nov 2020

These things happen and often get caught. The most important thing is to get it right.

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