Georgia ballots rejected by machines were later altered by election workers to count

justthenews.com ^ | 8/8/2021 | John Solomon, Daniel Payne and Natalia Mittelstadt

[bitt]

Records obtained by Just the News provide unprecedented glimpse into human adjudication of thousands of ballots, where marks for candidates like Trump were sometimes removed so ballots could count for Biden.

A day after the November election, as Donald Trump and other Republican candidates clung to evaporating leads in Georgia, vote counters in Atlanta were confronted by a paper ballot known only by its anonymizing number 5150-232-18.

A Dominion Voting machine had rejected the ballot on election night because the voter had filled in boxes for both Trump and his Democratic opponent Joe Biden, an error known as an "overvote." The machine determined neither candidate should get a tally, and the ballot was referred for human review.

The image of the ballot, obtained by Just the News, shows the voter messily scribbled a large blob in the box to select Trump as president while also putting a thinner check mark next to Biden's name.

At 6:10 p.m. ET on Nov. 4, 24 hours after the ballot was first scanned and rejected by Machine 5150, a panel of humans decided the vote should be awarded to Biden, with the notation "mark removed for Donald J. Trump." You can see that ballot here:

https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2021-08/05150_00232_000018_0.pdf

Scores of additional ballots that same day had checks manually removed next to Trump's name as well as many other candidates up and down the ticket — Libertarians, Democrats and write-ins alike — and the votes awarded instead to other candidates.

Welcome to the arcane process known as adjudication, where human judgment is substituted for machine scanning in cases where voters incorrectly filled out a paper ballot. Election officials and official observers have dealt with it for years, with everyday citizens mostly oblivious to the process.

[COBOL2Java]

So what will be the outcome of all this?

[Albion Wilde]

Sorry; I would have adjudicated that ballot for Biden also, due to all the other choices on that ballot marked with a check, not a scribble—provided those also were marked by the voter, not the adjudicator.

[deport]

Read the ballot marking instructions at the top of the ballot.

It plainly says DO NOT USE CHECK MARKS.
It says “fill in the circle”. The only legit vote on
that ballot was for Trump.

[Magnatron]

A Dominion Voting machine had rejected the ballot on election night because the voter had filled in boxes for both Trump and his Democratic opponent Joe Biden, an error known as an "overvote."

So the default process was to determine that the voter must have been stupid, so the vote went to Biden…

[Mr. K]

"So the default process was to determine that the voter must have been stupid, so the vote went to Biden…"

Hey... that actually almost makes sense. If they are that stupid that they can't fill out a form that ONLY requires a mark on paper, they must be democrats.

[Dr. Franklin]

The only thing that would make sense to me, is that it was ONLY for Trump, and the others were added later. (Or, possibly the person changed his/her mind and "scratched out" the Trump bubble, but all of the others are still unusable because they are checkmarks)

This was a Trump only ballot that was spoiled by adding checks for Joe and the Ho and other Dems. Checks are certainly fast to make, but don't follow the rules. They were all counted for the Dems. More proof of a rigged election.

[qaz123]

In their rush to make sure CornPop got the numbers needed, as well as Warnock and Ossof, they really screwed this up and got careless.

But, that doesn’t matter unless someone gives it a good hard look and investigates.

Look at the ballot example you attached. They scratched out the vote for Donald Trump and gave it all to the Dems, down the line.

[jmacusa]

Kinda figured that. Just wanted some input on the matter.

[Albion Wilde]

Point taken.