Where we’re at – The will of the people rests on the contents and whereabouts of a memory card.
The state’s elections staff caught it in a routine post-election check. In Seminole County, approximately 388 more voters were recorded as having checked in at polling places on Election Day than ballots were reported as cast, the office said. It alerted the county, which then realized it had missed a memory card, state elections director Blake Evans told the AJC.
“Our office identified a significant discrepancy, alerted county officials, and uncovered a failure to properly upload election results,” Raffensperger said in a statement. “This oversight didn’t just affect the numbers – it changed who was leading an election.”