A Georgia county recounted thousands of ballots on Nov. 17 after up to 2,700 votes were found missing. Election officials say they aren’t sure whether the mistake was a machine malfunction or human error. An investigation is underway to find out how it happened. At the Floyd County Board of Elections, officials suspect the problem might have derived from a scanner issue they had early on. Melanie Conrad, a member of Floyd County Board of Elections said that “the first step is to handle the recount, the next step is to get a message out to our citizens and say we’re going to make this right now.” “We know a box of around 5,000 ballots was taken from the location where a scanner malfunctioned during early voting. Those ballots were moved into the elections office. The question that’s on the table now, is how did half of those 5,000 get counted while the …A Georgia county recounted thousands of ballots on Nov. 17 after up to 2,700 votes were found missing. Election officials say they aren’t sure whether the mistake was a machine malfunction or human error. An investigation is underway to find out how it happened. At the Floyd County Board of Elections, officials suspect the problemRead More2020 Election, Politics, US, Videos, election 2020, missing ballots, GeorgiaEpoch Times, United States politics | The Epoch Times
