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Georgia election chief probes ‘unacceptable’ tabulation delay that could flip key state House race
Democracy Docket • • nation
Key Points:
- Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has launched an investigation into Seminole County's failure to upload nearly 400 votes, which altered the outcome of the District 154 state House race.
- The late-uploaded votes flipped the race from Democrat Harry James to Republican incumbent Gerald Greene, narrowing the Democrats' newly gained majority in the state House.
- The discrepancy was discovered during a routine post-election review, revealing a memory card with 388 unuploaded votes, prompting Raffensperger’s office to investigate the cause and potential corrective actions.
- Democrats had achieved historic gains in Georgia’s legislature, securing a slim majority in the state House for the first time in 22 years, but the flipped race reduces their margin to potentially just one seat.
- County election officials have until Monday to certify the election, with Raffensperger emphasizing the importance of every vote in close races and the need to understand how the oversight occurred.
