{"id":37251,"date":"2020-11-18T15:54:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T19:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=37251"},"modified":"2020-11-18T15:54:51","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T19:54:51","slug":"why-did-georgia-just-find-a-9626-vote-error-during-hand-recount-were-all-of-these-massive-mistakes-made-on-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=37251","title":{"rendered":"Why did Georgia just find a 9,626-vote error during hand recount? Were all of these massive mistakes made on purpose?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Georgia Recount Monitor Catches 9,626-Vote Error During Hand Recount<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->by Ivan Pentchoukov<br \/>\nThe Epoch Times<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-recount\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recount<\/a>\u00a0monitor in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-georgia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Georgia<\/a>\u00a0discovered a 9,626-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-vote\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">vote<\/a>\u00a0error in the hand recount in DeKalb County, according to the chairman of the Georgia Republican Party.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/ga%20ballot%20recount.jpg?itok=kpIFv5Ju\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/ga%20ballot%20recount.jpg?itok=kpIFv5Ju\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/ga%20ballot%20recount.jpg?itok=dzj2Ur74 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1280px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/ga%20ballot%20recount.jpg?itok=dzj2Ur74 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 480px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/ga%20ballot%20recount.jpg?itok=dzj2Ur74 1x, https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/ga%20ballot%20recount.jpg?itok=dzj2Ur74 2x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1024px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/ga%20ballot%20recount.jpg?itok=dzj2Ur74 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/ga%20ballot%20recount.jpg?itok=kpIFv5Ju 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/ga%20ballot%20recount.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"9f86351e-70a8-47ee-894e-4beb4deb3075\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of our monitors discovered a\u00a0<strong>9,626-vote error in the DeKalb County hand count<\/strong>. One batch was labeled 10,707 for Biden and 13 for Trump\u2014an improbable margin even by DeKalb standards.\u00a0<strong>The actual count for the batch was 1,081 for Biden and 13 for Trump<\/strong>,\u201d David Shafer wrote on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidShafer\/status\/1329062200737148932?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0on Nov. 18.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>Had this counting error not been discovered, Biden would have gained enough votes from this one batch alone to cancel out Trump\u2019s gains from Fayette, Floyd, and Walton<\/strong>,\u201d Shafer added, referring to the three Peach State counties which discovered memory cards with uncounted votes on Monday and Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Shafer said that two official counters signed off on the miscounted batch. GOP attorneys turned over an affidavit (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/484852763\/DeKalb-County-Affidavit-Redacted\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pdf<\/a>) on the incident to the Georgia secretary of state and requested an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>We were limited to one monitor for every 10 counting tables and we were kept some distance from the tables.<\/strong>\u00a0There is no telling what we missed under these unreasonable restrictions,\u201d Shafer said.<\/p>\n<p>[<em>ZH: more on this<\/em>]<\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1329123359272136704&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fgeorgia-recount-monitor-catches-9626-vote-error-during-hand-recount&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1329123359272136704\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"ad__wrapper-element\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1329063452271403016&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fgeorgia-recount-monitor-catches-9626-vote-error-during-hand-recount&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1329063452271403016\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-2\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-2&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1329097946776940559&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fgeorgia-recount-monitor-catches-9626-vote-error-during-hand-recount&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1329097946776940559\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>[<em>article continues<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>Fayette, Floyd, and Walton counties discovered uncounted votes on Monday and Tuesday with each batch favoring President Donald Trump. The discovered votes cut former Vice President Joe Biden\u2019s lead in the state by more than 1,400 votes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Georgia\u2019s deadline to complete the recount is at 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday.<\/strong>\u00a0The state is scheduled to vote on whether to certify the results of the 2020 election on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The recount in progress was initiated by Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger based on a new law that calls for an audit of one race after each election.<strong>\u00a0The Trump campaign has challenged the recount process, asserting that it is meaningless unless it includes an audit of the voters\u2019 signatures<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/ga%20reocunt_0.JPEG?itok=P3-JKpq9\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/ga%20reocunt_0.JPEG?itok=P3-JKpq9\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/ga%20reocunt_0.JPEG?itok=2m4XgPV9 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1280px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/ga%20reocunt_0.JPEG?itok=2m4XgPV9 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 480px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/ga%20reocunt_0.JPEG?itok=2m4XgPV9 1x, https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/ga%20reocunt_0.JPEG?itok=2m4XgPV9 2x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 1024px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/ga%20reocunt_0.JPEG?itok=2m4XgPV9 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" media=\"all and (min-width: 768px)\" \/><source srcset=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/ga%20reocunt_0.JPEG?itok=P3-JKpq9 1x\" type=\"image\/jpeg\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/ga%20reocunt_0.JPEG\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"320\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"0273e78b-6a15-4307-9fb8-bd280f75ca84\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The office of the secretary of state did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia officials are probing the handling of the presidential election in the state\u2019s largest county. Officials are seeing \u201cmanagerial sloppiness\u201d and \u201cchain of custody\u201d issues in Fulton County, which has a population of about a million and includes Atlanta, Gabriel Sterling with the secretary of state\u2019s office told reporters on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Raffensperger said Tuesday that an audit of voting machines was completed with no signs of foul play. Voting systems testing company Pro V&amp;V conducted the audit and \u201cfound no evidence of the machines being tampered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Trump campaign has alleged that voting machines and software by Dominion Voting Systems switched votes from Trump to Biden<\/strong>. Dominion denied the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>*\u00a0 *\u00a0 *<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/georgia-recount-monitor-catches-9626-vote-error-during-hand-recount\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/georgia-recount-monitor-catches-9626-vote-error-during-hand-recount<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia Recount Monitor Catches 9,626-Vote Error During Hand Recount<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}