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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI'm very suspicious of Georgia recount having found supposedly about 5000 uncounted ballots which
favored Trump. Biden will still win but nevertheless it is hard to believe.
hlthe2b
(102,361 posts)Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)sunonmars
(8,656 posts)triron
(22,020 posts)Response to sunonmars (Reply #3)
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sunonmars
(8,656 posts)On Tuesday, the recount found another 2755 votes that were originally uncounted from a single memory card in Fayette County.
The votes were scanned from a card, but not uploaded properly. The original record remains.
Of those, 1,577 go for President Donald Trump, and 1,128 for Joe Biden.. a pickup of another 449 votes for the President.
And Gabriel Sterling from the Secretarys office says they are also investigating more possible uncounted votes in a third county.
Those just involve 224 votes in Walton County from a memory card, but has not been confirmed yet.
The office reports that the other 110 counties to have finished their recounts wont change the outcome much at all. Here is that breakdown.
57 counties had no deviations from their original ballot count
21 counties were either plus or minus one off the original ballot count
32 counties are off by single digit numbers and are being investigated
In our area, Murray County had no changes.
Catoosa County had one more for President Trump
Whitfield reported a net swing of 33 for President Trump.
Going into the recount, Joe Biden led Donald Trump by about 14,000 votes.
Now, with the new Floyd and Fayette numbers, the Biden lead is down to 12,929 votes.
Officials say the recount should be finished by tomorrow.
triron
(22,020 posts)None of the blue counties reported changes.
Statistical
(19,264 posts)The two counties are heavily read leaning. If you have an undercount (due to negligence, poor training, mistakes) the undercount is going to split roughly the same as the overall vote. The counties were 60%/40% favoring Trump and in the recount the missing ballots were roughly 60%/40% for Trump.
triron
(22,020 posts)joshcryer
(62,276 posts)They favor incompetence in their decision making, policy making, appointments, and just overall as a people.
LisaL
(44,974 posts)They will have run off where margins could be even smaller for all we know.
It will totally not look good if extra votes end up flipping the election.
Bev54
(10,072 posts)they were on a thumb drive which someone did not properly upload and was found when the numbers were not matching so you go back to look at why.
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)Bev54
(10,072 posts)that is why they do audits. I completely understand, if the number of voters does not match the vote count, then go back and find your difference. No different than balancing cash. Happens all the time and is usually human error. The same in MI and they will do their audit to balance as well.
sfstaxprep
(9,998 posts)If the difference had been 1,000 or even a couple of Thousand, something like this is why Recounts are important, and can swing the results in a close race. Mistakes happen. But 14,000 Vote mistakes don't.
Which is why it keeps being said, this is Not Florida 2000.
LisaL
(44,974 posts)They better figure out what went wrong and make sure to not do it again.
sfstaxprep
(9,998 posts)They say this is the type of mistake that happens from time to time. Just human error, can't really predict when or where it will occur, but it was Not Fraud, and that's the important thing.
Yavin4
(35,446 posts)Good night and have a pleasant tomorrow.
Politicub
(12,165 posts)I was opposed to it originally. Until I learned that it can be a way to validate the new voting machines that the state acquired this year are recording votes correctly. And so far, it seems that they are.
The old system did not leave any kind of paper trail.
The uncounted votes are from red counties. Its no surprise that the majority are for Trump.
LisaL
(44,974 posts)those votes from a memory stick.
Yes, I find that a little iffy, but since it doesn't change the outcome, I hope next time they have an election (which would be very soon-run off) they correct this issue so it doesn't happen again.
Tom Rinaldo
(22,913 posts)Human errors happen of course, and these ones can't be blamed on any Democratic conspiracy, nor do they materially change the ultimate outcome, which will still have Biden winning by 5 digits.