No Excuse for "Uncounted" Georgia Ballots (Vanity)

Self

[noprogs]

I have been on my County's Vote Canvass Committee for a decade now, and been involved in counting absentee and military ballots for several elections. Having a bit of experience now and some intimate familiarity with Georgia election laws and procedures, there are no legitimate votes not already counted.

There are only two reasons for having extended polling hours (past 7:00pm EST) or uncounted ballots in this state past 11:59pm EST, and those two reasons are incompetence and fraud. Machine failures are nearly inexcusable, as they are only used at most a few weeks out of a year, and if a polling station opens late due to machine issues, it's due to incompetence from not taking the trouble to TEST THE MACHINES BEFORE THE POLLS OPEN! Very simple to accomplish. Other crap, such as can't find the keys, is more evidence of incompetence.

Turnout is not an excuse. In our county, we had a bit over 60% total turnout, with a rough 45% increase in the number of votes submitted over the 2016 election. Absentees and military accounted for about 4.5% of the vote total. All absentee and military were tabulated by 10:30pm with NO INCREASE IN STAFFING! We had a rejection rate of under 0.2% entirely due to absentees submitting ballots on the wrong form from a previous election.

Incompetence issues having been dealt with, any other cause of delay or extended polling hours is due to ATTEMPTED FRAUD. Interestingly, those counties with high absentee percentages and "high" rejection rates of absentee ballots are always the same urban, heavily Democrat counties every election. There are no legitimate votes to be "found" and counted.

Any Georgia county not opening and closing polls on time, and/or taking past midnight to complete the count should be immediately swarmed with agents from the Secretary of State and the GBI. Any county with absentee votes counting for more than 10% of the vote totals should also be investigated, especially since Early Voting has been implemented.

Incompetence or fraud, those are your choices in Georgia for delays of election results. Either case requires replacement of the leadership at the Election Commission, and investigation of the procedures used.

[noprogs]

I guess the misspelled header is my incompetence for typing on my phone!

[snarkytart]

I’m not for these vanities you could put this in the Georgia thread

[stylin19a]

thanks for the insider stuff.

...entirely due to absentees submitting ballots on the wrong form from a previous election.

How or why does this happen ?

[Reno89519]

In the late 80s and early 90s for several years, I worked elections in Northern Virginia. Run right, with competence and a mindset that legit voters have the right to vote, things go right. I hate electronic voting. Voting is one of our most sacred rights, privileges, and obligations. From the outside, looking at Georgia, I am a bit shocked. Voter match had good intentions but seemed extreme. The whole machine issue is so bad, like you say, that one wonders where the line is between incompetence and intentional. And these are local Democrats doing it to fellow Democrats. Go figure.

On a positive note, Georgia didn't do what Florida did, put a polling location behind locked gates in a private community and then bar area residents from getting in. That one requires state or federal investigation. Will anyone get fired, go to jail, or will it be forgotten to only get repeated in a couple of years?

[buckalfa]

Joseph Stalin said some version of “It’s not the people who vote that count, it’s the people who count the votes.”

[Democrats hate too much]

I appreciate the post. Thanks.

[noprogs]

The “how” is the voter used the wrong form that they had lying around and mailed it. “Why” is unknown.

[bk1000]

Stand in line behind a typical DeKalb county voter at McDonalds. I’d say more incompetence than fraud at the polls, and more fraud than incompetence where the counting is done. They want to be wards of the state.

[Lazamataz]

Interesting points. I was about to jump down your neck based on the headline, but the body of the post was good.

[kenmcg]

Just in, a truck loaded with ballots out of Atlanta expected shortly as the driver fell asleep on the side of the road. (sic)

[Nifster]

It’s DeKalb

[dfwgator]

Just in, a truck loaded with ballots out of Atlanta expected shortly as the driver fell asleep on the side of the road. (sic)

Poor Stacks.

[OrioleFan]

I stopped being a polling location manager here in Ohio. The reason was they sent me three voting machines of which one never worked in the 4 years I volunteered. In 2016, I voted early and the darn machine still didn’t work. The training we got was useless, and the democrat poll workers never showed up for the orientation meeting, and didn’t pull their weight on election day. Luckily we had three precincts at our location and thus 6 more voting machines. Once a democrat poll worker took her precincts machine cards home with her, and we had to track her down. Democrat poll workers are lazy and incompetent.