The Georgia State Election Board ( SEB ) will vote on a rule amendment on Monday that would make it necessary for all county boards of elections to follow current state requirements that require the number of ballots, number of votes, and number of voters to be counted in election tallies to be accurate.
Georgia saw more than 3, 000 vote double-scanned during the 2020 political tell in Fulton County. It is unclear how many — if any — of the double scanned votes were counted twice as vote, since the Georgia secretary of state’s office was not affirm it, according to the Atlanta-Journal Constitution.
The Double-scanned votes were actually counted thrice, according to Kevin Moncla, who filed a complaint alleging potential breaches of Georgia’s vote script in Fulton County. He claims they were actually recorded in the solid vote record. By identifying more seats tallied than the number of voters who cast ballots, a refined peace process could prevent a duplicate of this election blunders.
But Moncla tells The Federalist it was n’t just that more than 3, 000 ballots were double scanned.
” In the hand count they found approximately 6, 000 ballots in four different counties that were missing or had n’t been counted, and that means that no one is reconciling”, Moncla explained. ” It’s not a one-off in Fulton, it’s a pervasive and systemic problem. Reconciliation is like a stool: you need all three legs and if you do n’t have them all, then you’re going to fall”. Those” three thighs”, he said, are” the number of electors, the number of votes, and the number of ballots according to the system”.
Georgia state law now requires peace, but that method is not standard across the condition. That may all change Aug. 19 with the SEB ballot.
Under the plan, seats may be broken down by type of how the vote was cast, such as absent, temporary, progress, or in people on Election Day. The law would require the table to “investigate the gap and no votes may be counted from that corridor until the results of the investigation are presented to the Board as required by state rules.” The problem may be referred to the city lawyer for further investigation if a discrepancy however cannot be found.
A distinct plan would also require that a ballot director and” two witnesses who have been sworn as ballot soldiers” jointly “independently count the overall number of ballots taken out of the detector” and then compare their numbers.
The proposal states that” when all three poll officers arrive at the same total ballot count independently, they shall each sign a control document that includes the polling place, the ballot scanner serial number, electronic name, printed name, signature, and date and time of the ballot hand count.” If there is a discrepancy, the poll manager is instructed to then investigate the reason for the inconsistency.
Salleigh Grubbs, the chairwoman of the Republican Party in Cobb County, described the procedure as “going to the bank and getting a deposit receipt.” You simply want to make sure that the bills you claim are present are actually recorded.
” These proposals create uniform guidance, and that’s what’s needed”, Grubbs, who also submitted a proposal for reconciliation, explained to The Federalist. You have the law that specifies what they must do, but you do n’t have the rules that specify what you must do. And a lot of the boards of election require that reference to be repeated. A lot of this is required because we have a secretary of state who is n’t doing his job.
In a flimsy statement released on Thursday, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger accused “activists” of” seeking to impose last-minute changes in election procedures outside of the legislative process.
The state election board’s “misguided attempts” were condemned by the secretary of state, who claimed they would “undermine chain of custody safeguards and delay election results.”
Grubbs contends that Raffensperger is” not doing an adequate job of ensuring our election system is secure” or that “voter information is accurate.”
” There’s a fundamental lack of accountability of our secretary of state”, she said. ” Those issues are passed down to the counties, which is one reason the SEB must have oversight.”
The Federalist’s Brianna Lyman is a correspondent for elections. With a degree in international political economy, Brianna received her degree from Fordham University. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. Follow Brianna on X: @briannalyman2
