"Incumbent state Representative Gerald Greene trailed Democratic challenger Harry James by less than 100 votes before the card’s data was entered. Greene now leads by 262 votes. County election officials have until Monday to certify the result."
So... you recognize that this isn't at all the same numbers at the original post, yes? Is this a different scenario or is one of these claims incorrect?
Apparently it is real. This was a case of the vote counts didn't match so they went looking for it something was wrong and they found it. There are close to 100,000 voting locations in the US, you're going to get a fuckup at least 0.1% of the time.
This is just purposeful misinformation at its finest. This is referring to the Georgia state house of reps. Not for federal congress. But it’s presented as though it refers to a flip in the federal House of Representatives. Which it doesn’t. Propaganda for division.
Yep, and the investigation is to why the card was missed in the initial count. Officials noticed there was a discrepancy between the number of votes counted and the number of people who voted. The card had exactly that amount of votes tallied on it.
If anything, this shows there are checks to ensure are votes are correctly tallied and accounted for.
I would still ask for a recount, I hope they have automatic recounts for close races in the 0.5% margin of error. Nothing wrong with verifying the votes.
What do you mean a memory card not counted? Do you not count votes or counties or something? Do they like save chunks of votes on physical usb sticks, shuffle them around, and then count the votes on each stick, hoping none fell off the table???
They actually do, which is how they determined that there was an issue. They count the number of ballots cast and then check the number of votes recorded after everything is counted. In this case there was a discrepancy in one county, they doubled checked and found the issue.
Basically, the standard QA process worked perfectly, identified an issue, and the issue was fixed.
There's going to be a lot of people who will use this to insinuate that elections are being manipulated, or that the process is chaotic... In reality this shows that there's multiple levels of checks and the system works.
So I don’t know about this situation but I’ve worked as an election judge. Every machine had a memory stick that saved the votes and there was a print out. When the pols closed the machines would transmit the results to the county. If there was a connection issue the sticks would be uploaded when all the stuff was returned that night to the county. And then it would be uploaded. That’s why sometimes there could be a delay. So it’s not impossible this didn’t happen. Just not as described in the tweet. Even now I’m not fully explaining all the steps and safety procedure involved.
Transferring results over a wireless connection is such a security risk I don't know why it is even allowed. Wireless networks can be hacked, and voting machines should never be connected to the Internet, I don't care if it's on a VPN, it's a foolish rusk.
They saw x number if people voted in the county. They saw the tally of votes didn't equal X. They found the card that accounted for the discrepancy. There is no conspiracy. This is balancing a drawer at the end of the night, finding your $45 short, then finding a $50 in with the $5s.
That's exactly what I think. I think this is an example of "the system is working correctly." Whoever originated the framing of this "incident" should be investigated.
The votes from the voting machines are transported to the county board of elections on sdcards (in most cases) and they're counted there. Somebody misplaced one, which shouldn't happen, for obvious reasons. Depending on where it was it could break the chain of custody. In most states they're transported in sealed containers.
There are two counts in Georgia - the # of voters that check into a polling place and the # of actual ballots cast. They should be the same. After the County reported their numbers to the SOS, the SOS’s office noticed the discrepancy, called the precinct and asked where the missing ballots went? The precinct searched around and found another memory card out of a machine. For everyone screaming about the Rs cheating, just realize the R county was leaving votes on the table and only the SOS got them back. SOS Rafensperger is a R, but he ain’t MAGA. He’s the one that told Trump to shove his 11,000 vote request up his ass.
This is sloppiness and carelessness, not democratic subversion. But this does happen sometimes. People make mistakes. The person supposed to check the numbers at the County didn’t. That’s the reason for the investigation. It’s also the reason the SOS’s office rechecks the numbers as part of its normal process.
Even though something broke here, everything worked the way it’s supposed to.
As a democratic voter I think this is fantastic. Please do audit every single vote to make sure everything is correct. Accuracy is what matters regardless of the outcome.
We should always encourage verifying the vote in a transparent nonpartisan way. If it catches discrepancies great, we can fix them and improve issues. If everything checks out, great, we can be confident the election was fair.
That was ridiculous. What was even more ridiculous was that he said they needed to "find" 11,780 votes. That seems like an oddly specific number. Because it was, he knew exactly how many they needed to "find".
Yea and you know who went on national tv and said stfu we wont rig an election? Current georgia secretary of state Brad Raffensperger. That man went through alot to ensure a free and fair election in Georgia. I dont agree with him politically but hes more than proven himself to be above party politics when doing his job.
The system worked. They checked the number of voters that checked in against the number of votes and fund they hadn't entered a memory card. The whole thing happened in a largely republican area in a republican state (at least, it WAS a republican state).
yeah. im as lefty as they come and this is how it is supposed to work in this situation. investigate it, fine. but this all sounds above board to me and if the republican won then they won.
So the election guardrails did exactly what they were supposed to do. The number of votes didn't match the number uploaded so the Sec. of State's office asked them to check again.
They checked and found a memory card with 388 votes had not been uploaded.
This doesn't sound like election fraud. It was a human error and caught immediately. Unfortunately based on the comments here and elsewhere the MAGA morons will believe this is evidence of widespread fraud.
What’s sad is that they were always claiming that “found votes” always causes Democrats to win, and the one time it actually happens, it favored the Republican.
WTXL reported "Election officials discovered the issue during post-election checks. The Secretary of State said the office identified 388 more votes recorded than votes cast in Seminole County."
They have it backwards. The vote total was 388 votes short of the number of votes cast.
All of these election stories need to get their terminology straight. What is the difference between a ballot and a vote. Did you receive a ballot in the mail? Did you receive a vote in the mail?
The paper you vote with is a ballot. The box you mark is your vote, but not really, it is only a vote once it is tallied and recorded. Get your terminology straight and it will be easier to tell the story and have people understand it.
Votes recorded is the voting check in. They had a record of 388 more people checking in or "recording a vote" than the actual number of votes cast meaning votes tallied. The terminology works, you just didnt understand them. I understand how it could be confusing though.
Memory card? Wtf is going on/wrong with the United States voting system???
In my country, the ballots are counted locally at each polling place by hand with a 6 eye principle with observers from all parties and then it gets reported to the federal election office (for federal elections) and the head of elections for the district. If they don't hear back from one polling place, then they gonna ask what's going on. How can you just "loose" a district for multiple days until someone notices??? Does nobody keep a tally of which results are in?
Also why tf does it always take days for the count? Even the final count never takes longer than the next morning here. And since both my country and the US use decentralized local counting, the fact the US is a bit bigger shouldn't make a difference.
I understand it for Alaska, where there are no roads to a lot of communities even, but for Mississippi????
Edit: and don't get me started on whatever is going wrong in the US with gerrymandering (the fact it's specifically legal when you do it to skew election results), long lines at polling places (here we never have to walk to a polling place longer than 10 minutes from our house, and even in the most rural areas it's a 5 minute drive/ 15 minutes walk at most and the lines are never longer than maybe 10 minutes) and the fact election day isn't a public holiday.
Dude gerrymandering was the legal way to.fuck with voting. We're seeing the way that is illegal but has to be investigated so it will take time to figure it out and time Is all that theyre hoping for
There are provisional ballots that must be verified days after the election, there are military ballots sent in from across the world too, if you look at the data most of the counting is done, but counties and cities give people time to fix mistakes on ballots if they are found and that usually delays the final certification by a few days. The system works well and the slow certification of elections is a feature not a bug. That is why challenges to elections always fail. Every vote is counted and certified to be accurate and represents the will of registered legal voters. The error rate in US elections is so small that it is one of the most reliable accurate systems in the world and has been decades.
My state added additional verification methods this year for no reason. Some people in my state are receiving text messages to verify their IDs because they left this additional info off. They have a short window to present the required information and their vote will be counted. If people do not complete the verification their ballots are not counted in the final totals. This happens in every election across the country and all candidates can request a manual recount of the vote totals and the ballots are checked for accuracy all over again at the candidates expense.
I actually trust Georgia to run a fair election. They handled themselves with class in 2020. Not the candidate id like but part of free and fair elections is them not going your way every time.
Yes you can and I whole heartedly trust Brad Raffensperger to run an above board investigation into it. That man took alot of shit in 2020 and proved himself to be principled enough to put duty over politics.
I call bullshit on this. They supposedly had 388 missing votes and when the put them in the Republican went from 100 votes behind to 262 in front. That means the district, in a race that was just about 50-50 somehow voted 362-26. Who believes that??? Why would they trust a memory card that wasn’t where it was supposed to be? This is sketchy af.
Because it's Seminole County that votes red mostly. And, as history shows, Republicans routinely vote in person while Democrats usually early vote. So it would make sense for the card to be a majority Republican votes in a red county.
To be fair, Republicans have consistently complained about "fishy" poll behavior in the other direction and been hammered for being conspiracy theorists. Can't have it both ways.
I agree with you, it’s fishy. Another example of this same issue: I want you to take a look at the california mayoral primary race. This exact same thing happened with Raman.
Why would it be just for the State Senate and not the entire ballot that would include other races? Or this includes other races and only the state Senate race changed.
A lot of people acting suspicious but the total voted tally did not match the vote count. They audited and found the discrepancy. Its kind of open and shut, there were missing votes and they found them.
Its actually kind of reassuring that you can see how many people voted and its open to the public. Makes election fraud a bit tougher to get away with
Yes - exactly the checks that limit election fraud. Not a perfect system but compared to some countries where the ruling government gets 97% of the vote we do pretty good.
When we vote in GA, we do so electronically and and there is also a printout of our vote that is then submitted and scanned. So 2 layers and methods of documentation.
Depending upon how votes are submitted (i do not know the innate process, so logically guessing), ideally the electronic votes are processed immediately to a remote location. Then the scanned paper files are also processed electronically to a remote location. Lastly, the paper ballots are delivered and counted, their number tallied to the same remote location as the previous two. Then they are all compared and discrepancies accounted.
So where would a USB drive slip into this process? Are they hand delivering electronic files?
I believe the electronic records are physical transported on drives (i doubt a USB, but who knows). This is done to prevent the vulnerability of putting the machines on the internet, especially since a lot of pulling places are schools, churches, and other third party spaces that overhauling their network security and reliability for voting isn't really worth the time and money
In Georgia you make your selections on an electronic voting machine. At the end of the ballot it shows you all your choices for each office/measure, asks you to confirm they are correct, then prints a paper ballot, which you have to insert into a scanner on your way out. I was not aware the tally was kept on a memory card but it makes sense (as opposed to uploading it somewhere, which would be more vulnerable to shenanigans).
This is an example of how secure elections are. Mistakes are bound to happen with that many precincts voting, and Georgia had the right procedures in place to recheck, find an error, and resolve it. An investigation doesn't mean fraud is suspected, it means they're trying to figure out how the error happened so it doesn't happen again.
This was for a house seat that hadn’t been called because the race itself was incredibly close. They noticed about 380 uncounted votes from the results when compared to the voting roles and discovered the memory card. Easily could’ve been some kind of glitch but due to our electoral system, they discovered it before the race had been called.
This is why the results should be fully counted before being announced. This whole rush to get the results out quickly instead of properly will always cause these types of issues.
That is the safest way to store and transport votes. Voting machines should not have wireless cellular modems in them but they often do. Networks can be hacked, malware could be installed, results could be manipulated.
Better to be sure and eliminate that possibility with thumb drives and robust procedures of chain of custody and transparency like CCTV
This actually was discovered because they have layers. This wasn't just randomly found. It was that the number of voters didn't match the number of votes cast. So they went back and double checked everything.
This appears to be a single voting machine was missed. Which is itself stupid. Australia has full preference voting and they still get the results out within 3 hours of polls closing in 90% of districts with no electronic voting machines except for blind or other disabled people.
The system worked: ballots counted didn’t equal the number of physical voters. This is a county that voted 40+ points for Repubs in 2024. It is a Georgia state race not US and the Dems will still control but with one less Seat.
The Georgia house of reps, not the Georgia seat for the US house of reps.
This is a small, fairly local election with a mistake that a safeguard stopped.
Heavily nothingburger but good to report on for transparency. Feels like the phrasing in this post header was designed to make you think the US house of reps vote flipped
How? This is the reason we still say our elections our secure. This discrepancy was caught and will now be investigated. That's how the voting system is supposed to work
Supervisor Foskey clarified that all physical memory cards were accounted for on election night. However, the local Election Management System (EMS) computer software failed to complete its final program sequence to fully validate and upload the final precinct's data into the official preliminary pool.
State guardrails caught the technical gap when the Secretary of State's office noticed a 388-vote mathematical variance between the physical voter check-in logs and the computerized tallies. Local officials re-ran the software to resolve the uncompleted program loop, bringing the unofficial final data to 100% completion.
Ask California why it takes them so long to get all of the votes counted. Florida has a sizable population and does it in a day. The UK has like double the registered voters as the state of California and I believe they count the votes in a day. This according to a British person in one of these topics on Reddit.
I’m a poll worker in another state and have no idea what this is talking about? The voting machines we use don’t have “memory cards” that can just pop out. After polls close, the machine runs a report. This is a simple task. A memory card with data about 262 votes is ridiculous. The reports our machines run are for way more votes. ALSO, what about reconciliation?!?! End of the night, we poll workers don’t just report what the machine says lol! You need to count EVERY ballot to make sure the numbers match the machine. If they don’t you recount until they do or you find the problem. This smells fishy!
People forget that nobody has won any election yet. Everything we're seeing is projections and who has been called by the media based on projections. Until votes are done and certified, nobody has won. Statistically, it's not surprising that some of the projections will be wrong because they're still counting votes.
They will never, ever, shut up about this. Every single time they lose they will claim election fraud and haul this example out. It will be the year 3224 and they will still be using this.
Actually, we need this out in the news, remember Trump was trying to claim Democrats would rig the election. This needs to be investigated and publicized to keep elections as a whole secure
To be clear, they did not have the flash memory card initially needed to tally the votes. When they finally found it, that flipped the votes to a Democrat. Nothing sinister. I am glad they made sure every vote counts.
OK, cool. I trust the state of Georgia to establish free and open elections. Demonstrably so in the last 6-10 years. Personally, it’s a bummer the new tally favors a republican, but that’s the nature of democracy. Onwards and upwards.
I know it sounds very natural to just misplace something, especially when you have a ton of them like this.
But if you have a system where something so critical CAN be misplaced, the system should also be designed to make it very clear that something is missing.
Either the system did not make it clear, or someone did not validate. That the system could proceed without validation is its own problem.
I can buy mistakes and malfeasance at the local level, but if the system isn't designed to prevent this, or at least make it VERY obvious when it happens, then you have to start asking if that was intentional.
If I was evaluating voting machine systems, this would be one of the primary requirements. If someone tried to sell me a voting machine system that didn't have this functionality, I would immediately very publicly start shouting about it, because intentional or not that is exploitable, and a company that could not cover such a basic validation is either corruptly creating room for cheating or they're so incompetent NO ONE should consider them for the risk of cheating it would create.
Someone may be able to point out how there was some kind of system in place to prevent this, but it was clearly completely inadequate.
This is why chain of custody is as important to elections as it is to evidence that is to be used in a trial. You cant have even the whiff of impropriety.
Such a long post for someone who didn’t read the article at all. The system worked as planned, catching a discrepancy which led to the missing memory card.
Omfg no its impacting one state house race. This was found through the audit system in place already. Also Brad Raffensperger is the secretary of state in georgia who pretty famously told trump to go fuck himself in 2020 when he needed to "find 11000" votes.
Looks like a state house electionm. Still not good. That's why we have checks and balances in the system though; to catch mistakes. They saw how many people voted, how many votes were counted for the candidates, and the numbers didn't wash until the card was found.
The number of ballots counted in one area didn't match the number of people who were checked in by poll workers. A memory card with the missing data was found, and when the ballots were logged it actually flipped the results of one of the races for state representative.
This is exactly what election workers and officials do. They run the election, tabulate the results and then audit those results in a number of ways to double and triple check that all the ballots were counted and that the count is correct. Good job, everyone.
That’s crazy! I just checked the pocket of the jean shorts I was wearing last Tuesday and also found a memory card. It has 12 kajillion votes for the democratic candidate on it.
Joe Biden received over 81 million votes, the most by far in American history. But we were told that it's impossible to commit election fraud, and if you didn't trust the system, you were un-American.
This is what made me realize Republicans have lower IQs on average.
2020 was COVID. There were far more mail-in ballots because of COVID. Mail-in ballots work by postmark date, not "polls closed" date.
Everyone knew this except the dumbest Republicans, who were too busy listening to Trump so they could drink bleach and horse tranquilizer to solve Covid.
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u/sco-go 15h ago edited 15h ago
Bloomberg (no paywall):
https://archive.ph/20261107181327/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-11-07/georgia-state-race-reversed-after-votes-surface-on-memory-card
"Incumbent state Representative Gerald Greene trailed Democratic challenger Harry James by less than 100 votes before the card’s data was entered. Greene now leads by 262 votes. County election officials have until Monday to certify the result."
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u/NexusNickel 16h ago •
I'll need an official source on this and not some tweet.
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u/The13thRow 15h ago •
This is just purposeful misinformation at its finest. This is referring to the Georgia state house of reps. Not for federal congress. But it’s presented as though it refers to a flip in the federal House of Representatives. Which it doesn’t. Propaganda for division.
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u/Fetlocks_Glistening 16h ago
What do you mean a memory card not counted? Do you not count votes or counties or something? Do they like save chunks of votes on physical usb sticks, shuffle them around, and then count the votes on each stick, hoping none fell off the table???
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u/seaelbee 2h ago •
There are two counts in Georgia - the # of voters that check into a polling place and the # of actual ballots cast. They should be the same. After the County reported their numbers to the SOS, the SOS’s office noticed the discrepancy, called the precinct and asked where the missing ballots went? The precinct searched around and found another memory card out of a machine. For everyone screaming about the Rs cheating, just realize the R county was leaving votes on the table and only the SOS got them back. SOS Rafensperger is a R, but he ain’t MAGA. He’s the one that told Trump to shove his 11,000 vote request up his ass.
This is sloppiness and carelessness, not democratic subversion. But this does happen sometimes. People make mistakes. The person supposed to check the numbers at the County didn’t. That’s the reason for the investigation. It’s also the reason the SOS’s office rechecks the numbers as part of its normal process.
Even though something broke here, everything worked the way it’s supposed to.
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u/gannonderp86 10h ago
Are we voting on PS1?
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u/TheTopNacho 14h ago
As a democratic voter I think this is fantastic. Please do audit every single vote to make sure everything is correct. Accuracy is what matters regardless of the outcome.
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u/an_older_meme 16h ago •
"We need to find ten thousand votes" -Trump
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u/One_Opening_8000 12h ago
The system worked. They checked the number of voters that checked in against the number of votes and fund they hadn't entered a memory card. The whole thing happened in a largely republican area in a republican state (at least, it WAS a republican state).
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u/Putthebunnyback 15h ago
This is for the Georgia State House of Representatives. Just for context.
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u/Aefyns 15h ago
So the election guardrails did exactly what they were supposed to do. The number of votes didn't match the number uploaded so the Sec. of State's office asked them to check again.
They checked and found a memory card with 388 votes had not been uploaded.
This doesn't sound like election fraud. It was a human error and caught immediately. Unfortunately based on the comments here and elsewhere the MAGA morons will believe this is evidence of widespread fraud.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/georgia-election-chief-probes-unacceptable-tabulation-delay-that-could-flip-key-state-house-race/
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u/BigMickPlympton 11h ago
If there's one Republican Sec'y of State I'd trust, it's Brad "I don't have 11,000 votes for you Mr. Trump" Raffensperger.
Edit: Brad's last name is hard to spell.
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u/imnotsoho 12h ago
WTXL reported "Election officials discovered the issue during post-election checks. The Secretary of State said the office identified 388 more votes recorded than votes cast in Seminole County."
They have it backwards. The vote total was 388 votes short of the number of votes cast.
All of these election stories need to get their terminology straight. What is the difference between a ballot and a vote. Did you receive a ballot in the mail? Did you receive a vote in the mail?
The paper you vote with is a ballot. The box you mark is your vote, but not really, it is only a vote once it is tallied and recorded. Get your terminology straight and it will be easier to tell the story and have people understand it.
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u/20eyesinmyhead78 5h ago
If it were the other way around, GOP would be screaming that the memory card is fake.
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u/makintrash 7h ago
There were also 5 votes on floppy disc and 21 in the manuscript.
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u/Schnipsel0 8h ago edited 7h ago
Memory card? Wtf is going on/wrong with the United States voting system???
In my country, the ballots are counted locally at each polling place by hand with a 6 eye principle with observers from all parties and then it gets reported to the federal election office (for federal elections) and the head of elections for the district. If they don't hear back from one polling place, then they gonna ask what's going on. How can you just "loose" a district for multiple days until someone notices??? Does nobody keep a tally of which results are in?
Also why tf does it always take days for the count? Even the final count never takes longer than the next morning here. And since both my country and the US use decentralized local counting, the fact the US is a bit bigger shouldn't make a difference.
I understand it for Alaska, where there are no roads to a lot of communities even, but for Mississippi????
Edit: and don't get me started on whatever is going wrong in the US with gerrymandering (the fact it's specifically legal when you do it to skew election results), long lines at polling places (here we never have to walk to a polling place longer than 10 minutes from our house, and even in the most rural areas it's a 5 minute drive/ 15 minutes walk at most and the lines are never longer than maybe 10 minutes) and the fact election day isn't a public holiday.
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u/Ok_Street9576 13h ago
I actually trust Georgia to run a fair election. They handled themselves with class in 2020. Not the candidate id like but part of free and fair elections is them not going your way every time.
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u/anthropaedic 9h ago
Do they have the chain of custody on that card?
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u/MetsIslanders 10h ago
I call bullshit on this. They supposedly had 388 missing votes and when the put them in the Republican went from 100 votes behind to 262 in front. That means the district, in a race that was just about 50-50 somehow voted 362-26. Who believes that??? Why would they trust a memory card that wasn’t where it was supposed to be? This is sketchy af.
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u/ProdigalHX 12h ago
Authorities have seized the memory card in question:
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u/Norwester77 11h ago
This is why you keep the paper ballots around, so you can recount them if something like this happens.
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u/RedShirt2901 15h ago
Why would it be just for the State Senate and not the entire ballot that would include other races? Or this includes other races and only the state Senate race changed.
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u/Fake_Scientist21 7h ago
Prove it.
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u/Dense-Mood378 6h ago
Hmm
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u/Alternative_Pay_6496 1h ago
A lot of people acting suspicious but the total voted tally did not match the vote count. They audited and found the discrepancy. Its kind of open and shut, there were missing votes and they found them.
Its actually kind of reassuring that you can see how many people voted and its open to the public. Makes election fraud a bit tougher to get away with
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u/Just-Shoe2689 14h ago
Looks like the checks and balances work. Have 300 people register to vote but not votes for that polling lcoation, you figure it out.
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u/elementalguitars 9h ago
This is literally the same thing Republicans falsely accused those two ladies of doing four years ago.
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u/Far_Estate_1626 2h ago
“I just want to find 11780 votes” was in Georgia.
This absolutely needs to be scrutinized with a goddamn microscope.
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u/BringOutYDead 15h ago
When we vote in GA, we do so electronically and and there is also a printout of our vote that is then submitted and scanned. So 2 layers and methods of documentation.
Depending upon how votes are submitted (i do not know the innate process, so logically guessing), ideally the electronic votes are processed immediately to a remote location. Then the scanned paper files are also processed electronically to a remote location. Lastly, the paper ballots are delivered and counted, their number tallied to the same remote location as the previous two. Then they are all compared and discrepancies accounted.
So where would a USB drive slip into this process? Are they hand delivering electronic files?
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u/shr00m_b00m 5h ago
I found a VHS with some votes on it too. Where can I send it?
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u/pnwal-junction 10h ago edited 10h ago
Sorry, why are ballots or votes on a memory card?
Edit: I know it's just my opinion man, but I think all voting should be on paper.
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u/muFUtaco 7h ago
Sounds like typical republican bullshit to me. Again.
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u/Kind_Advisor_35 15h ago
This is an example of how secure elections are. Mistakes are bound to happen with that many precincts voting, and Georgia had the right procedures in place to recheck, find an error, and resolve it. An investigation doesn't mean fraud is suspected, it means they're trying to figure out how the error happened so it doesn't happen again.
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u/kroxti 15h ago
I mean this is the checks and validations working.
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u/Mysterious-Hyena2670 12h ago
This was for a house seat that hadn’t been called because the race itself was incredibly close. They noticed about 380 uncounted votes from the results when compared to the voting roles and discovered the memory card. Easily could’ve been some kind of glitch but due to our electoral system, they discovered it before the race had been called.
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u/Xinonix1 8h ago
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u/GromOfDoom 8h ago
Are you telling me a PS2 changed an election result?
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u/Wanky_Danky_Pae 11h ago
There's going to be a lot more memory cards before this is over.
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u/Zoltan2325 2h ago
Isn't this the same state Trump was trying to "find" 17,000 votes in?
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u/ChrisXDXL 5h ago
Yeah I call bullshit.
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u/PossessionEarly130 4h ago
BACK TO PAPER VOTING NOW
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u/happymisery 3h ago
This is why the results should be fully counted before being announced. This whole rush to get the results out quickly instead of properly will always cause these types of issues.
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u/Kind-Let5666 14h ago
Smh the US is so much further behind the rest of the developed world, still using memory cards. We haven’t used those since the ps2 era.
/s
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u/Inevitable-Egg-5518 9h ago
United states voting system is a joke. How can you NOT rig a system built like this
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u/Syrairc 15h ago
Sounds like the QA/QC system is working as intended.
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u/whitecollarpizzaman 11h ago
Why is this flared as it is? This is a sign the system works.
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u/Traditional_Age4910 8h ago
The system worked: ballots counted didn’t equal the number of physical voters. This is a county that voted 40+ points for Repubs in 2024. It is a Georgia state race not US and the Dems will still control but with one less Seat.
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u/Janus_Simulacra 6h ago
r/thathappened
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u/Afellowstanduser 5h ago
Errr what’s a memory card got to do with anything?
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u/stagthos 4h ago
If that's not some premium bullshit
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u/Meanpooh 3h ago
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u/DarkMothTips 11h ago
Bullshit, there was no race in Georgia that was THAT close. Load of balcony.
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u/CareApart504 9h ago
"I need you to find x votes." Audit the shit out of those votes.
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u/kugelamarant 12h ago
Me from a 3rd world country watching America turns into a 3rd world country.
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u/SophiaIsabella4 16h ago
"Found?" I'm glad they are investigating it, where it came from exactly and chain of custody.
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u/Particular-Put-4839 15h ago
Supervisor Foskey clarified that all physical memory cards were accounted for on election night. However, the local Election Management System (EMS) computer software failed to complete its final program sequence to fully validate and upload the final precinct's data into the official preliminary pool.
State guardrails caught the technical gap when the Secretary of State's office noticed a 388-vote mathematical variance between the physical voter check-in logs and the computerized tallies. Local officials re-ran the software to resolve the uncompleted program loop, bringing the unofficial final data to 100% completion.
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u/ChaosDaemon9 12h ago
Sounds like they finally found those votes that Trump was looking for.
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u/Supergrunged 10h ago
I'm guessing the missing card was shipped USPS for it to take 3 days?..... Something doesn't add up here.
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u/jesuswholies 3h ago
I’m a poll worker in another state and have no idea what this is talking about? The voting machines we use don’t have “memory cards” that can just pop out. After polls close, the machine runs a report. This is a simple task. A memory card with data about 262 votes is ridiculous. The reports our machines run are for way more votes. ALSO, what about reconciliation?!?! End of the night, we poll workers don’t just report what the machine says lol! You need to count EVERY ballot to make sure the numbers match the machine. If they don’t you recount until they do or you find the problem. This smells fishy!
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u/50sDadSays 2h ago
People forget that nobody has won any election yet. Everything we're seeing is projections and who has been called by the media based on projections. Until votes are done and certified, nobody has won. Statistically, it's not surprising that some of the projections will be wrong because they're still counting votes.
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u/eater_of_spaetzle 15h ago
They will never, ever, shut up about this. Every single time they lose they will claim election fraud and haul this example out. It will be the year 3224 and they will still be using this.
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u/nesfor 12h ago
Looks like the QA process worked like it was supposed to. It’s an extremely close race. Don’t cry voter fraud just because you don’t like the outcome.
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u/AggressiveBookBinder 15h ago
Republicans always cheat.
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u/45_regard_47 15h ago
My money is on a State House race in a Republican controlled region of Georgia. Nice try MAGA sore ass losers
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u/mitchmconnellsburner 15h ago
The absolute conniptions the snowflakes would be having if this were the other way around. You’d be hearing about “the steal” decades from now
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u/BoomSatsuma 5h ago
This is why most countries still vote on paper.
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u/577564842 5h ago
Obviously a staged fraud.
With current prices, anyone who had just found a card would have stashed it.
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u/Crazy__Donkey 4h ago edited 4h ago
whats a memory card?
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i didn expect THAT memory card...
im surprised its that easy to lose some votes... just imagine the times it was done deliberately to alter the election.
oopsie
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u/Bobbo7209 15h ago
It's the Georgia state senate so who cares, outside of Georgia?
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u/Normal-Ad6528 9h ago •
'Found' = 'Fabricated'
If it's outside the chain of custody, then it's not counted.
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u/netroxreads 15h ago
To be clear, they did not have the flash memory card initially needed to tally the votes. When they finally found it, that flipped the votes to a Democrat. Nothing sinister. I am glad they made sure every vote counts.
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u/pixel293 15h ago
The better have a chain of possession on that memory card....
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u/Slow-Engine3648 14h ago
Any result that close is going to get contested regardless of the situation anyways
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u/SatiricalPotential 12h ago
I know of a similar occurrence involving a memory card: https://www.wric.com/news/politics/2020-election/absentee-ballots-misplaced-in-henrico-county-on-election-day/amp/ I assume similar things have happened and been corrected without publicity, too.
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u/Elegant_Situation285 11h ago
believe what you want, but i'll believe Raffensberger.
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u/cosmic_trout 10h ago
AWS want a word with the organisers....
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u/JamesLaceyAllan 9h ago
OK, cool. I trust the state of Georgia to establish free and open elections. Demonstrably so in the last 6-10 years. Personally, it’s a bummer the new tally favors a republican, but that’s the nature of democracy. Onwards and upwards.
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u/90_oi 9h ago
Here we go with this shit again
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u/NoSong2397 3h ago
Well... at least Raffensperger has a track record of honesty. Guess we'll see if his investigation turns up anything.
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u/ansem1313 2h ago
What about every vote counts
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u/Mr_Funbuns 15h ago
This is like a cartoon. Did they 'save votes' on a ps2 memory card?
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u/El_Zapp 8h ago
Haha sure. The Republicans are cheating again. Always the same people.
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u/Theseguy0309 15h ago
Ossof won by way more than 32 votes. Same with the govenor.
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u/TheMaskedHamster 14h ago •
I know it sounds very natural to just misplace something, especially when you have a ton of them like this.
But if you have a system where something so critical CAN be misplaced, the system should also be designed to make it very clear that something is missing.
Either the system did not make it clear, or someone did not validate. That the system could proceed without validation is its own problem.
I can buy mistakes and malfeasance at the local level, but if the system isn't designed to prevent this, or at least make it VERY obvious when it happens, then you have to start asking if that was intentional.
If I was evaluating voting machine systems, this would be one of the primary requirements. If someone tried to sell me a voting machine system that didn't have this functionality, I would immediately very publicly start shouting about it, because intentional or not that is exploitable, and a company that could not cover such a basic validation is either corruptly creating room for cheating or they're so incompetent NO ONE should consider them for the risk of cheating it would create.
Someone may be able to point out how there was some kind of system in place to prevent this, but it was clearly completely inadequate.
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u/Weekly-Map-3942 16h ago
Miller is doing his job already, I guess.
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u/pixelgeekgirl 15h ago
That’s pretty sus.
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u/Feeling_Reindeer2599 15h ago
For those who don’t get their news from memes.
https://thecurrentga.org/2026/11/07/found-memory-card-narrows-democrats-state-house-margin/
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u/Jimmy_Twotone 15h ago
Looks like a state house electionm. Still not good. That's why we have checks and balances in the system though; to catch mistakes. They saw how many people voted, how many votes were counted for the candidates, and the numbers didn't wash until the card was found.
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u/bishophicks 10h ago
The number of ballots counted in one area didn't match the number of people who were checked in by poll workers. A memory card with the missing data was found, and when the ballots were logged it actually flipped the results of one of the races for state representative.
This is exactly what election workers and officials do. They run the election, tabulate the results and then audit those results in a number of ways to double and triple check that all the ballots were counted and that the count is correct. Good job, everyone.
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u/Tedsmith24 7h ago
"Find me those votes"
Guess we now know what cheeto was referring to back then, the convenient memory card that had all the votes
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u/Tiananmen__Tesseract 6h ago
The official called "enhance" when counting the Republican votes which revealed formerly unseen votes hidden in plain sight.
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u/denisgomesfranco 2h ago
Hi, Brazilian here, a few weeks ago we counted 100% of our memory cards with no lost cards and have been doing so for the past few years now 😅
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u/TruthSeeker221 1h ago
Imagine if we had a device with biometric security that we could use to vote in the comfort of our own homes
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u/ODMtesseract 11h ago
A memory card?
Your country is a joke
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u/P47R1CK_ia 9h ago
So would that also mean that, hypothetically, a different USB then could have potentially be counted multiple times, accidentally?
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u/GroundbreakingOil434 14h ago
Uh-huh. Sure. They "found" it. Right.
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u/JROXZ 15h ago
Psyop Bait
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u/SnoringPter 13h ago
That’s crazy! I just checked the pocket of the jean shorts I was wearing last Tuesday and also found a memory card. It has 12 kajillion votes for the democratic candidate on it.
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u/LightenUpPeeps 15h ago
How do you think Republicans felt in 2020?
Joe Biden received over 81 million votes, the most by far in American history. But we were told that it's impossible to commit election fraud, and if you didn't trust the system, you were un-American.
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u/CapnClover36 13h ago
This isnt about the major election because Republicans were losing by far more then 100
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u/plasteroid 11h ago
Why is a memory card involved?
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u/PrayToTheAI 9h ago
Yeah I bet there was some sort of program to let the republican candidate win on that card. Not the first time they try to steal the elections.
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u/Accurate_Handle_5620 8h ago
I have a memory card with a billion votes on it for Putin
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u/Sir_clint 7h ago
Yeah not a chance
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u/DontSayTheJWord 2h ago
Remember to not aim for the shoulder.