Activists cite tabulation flaw in mail-in ballots in Georgia

[Judi Lynn]

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 week’s 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 it’s 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.



Read more: https://apnews.com/66c2b4b36609d83aa5c08235f947ea59

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[Budi]

1. I wonder what Tech creds "top Georgia voting official" George Sterling holds

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]

2. Did you know that Georgia has 159 counties?

Today I learned at a prevalence of 2.5% is "systemic."

[Yeehah]

4. LOL! Today I learned counties vote, not people.

Those four counties represent 12% of Georgia's population.

[ancianita]

3. An honest governor will accept vote auditing. Otherwise, their agenda is winning for their party.

[LiberalArkie]

5. I always thought that the tabulators would be where the fraud would take place.

[stopdiggin]

6. how many years does it take

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 ...

AP News link: In Morgan County, Republican-dominated and just southeast of Atlanta, panelists discovered at least 20 votes on scanned ballot images that the program had not recorded, said Jeanne Dufort, a Democrat on the panel. She said it appeared the votes did not register because ovals that were supposed to be filled in were instead checked or marked with X’s.

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.