Oh boy...
4:30
Tony Thomas
@TonyThomasWSB
Happening now: Gwinnett election workers uploading first wave of ballots to system .. will be sent to state as soon as complete . This is the computer glitch ballots for now , at least 3 waves totally 5-8,000 (best approximate guess) @wsbtv
4:43
Update : @GwinnettGov forming file of at least 5,000 ballots and will then go to state . Big Change this will include all except military , provisional and cured ( last batch total about 2,000) . Not just those involved in computer glitch . Getting close .@wsbtv
5:00
#BREAKING: New numbers from the Secretary of State’s office show Biden has taken a 4,235 vote lead over Trump in Georgia
Unbelievable.Earlier today Gwinnett county had 3500 votes outstanding. So this “glitch” gave Biden an extra 2700 votes? Am I reading that right?
Gwinnett went 50% Hillary in 2016, and 58.4% Biden who couldn’t get 10 people to a rally.
there has to be (imho) a definitional impediment at the GA SoS level concerning the use of the concept or outstanding ballots and associated terminology. The problem has apparently percolated down to selected counties. I have not been able to make sense of the GA election results arithmetic at the high level for the last 48 hours. So it is little surprise that the problem extends to the county level in some cases such as Gwinnett.
I am 3000 miles away from Georgia. At some point local Georgia people need to collect and dig through all of the announcements and try to make some sense out of them.
The GA SoS web site only posts updates but apparently has no log. In a highly contentious election, that was an unpleasant surprise to me and it makes me immediately suspicious of anything coming out of the SoS office or anything reporting to that office.
Hopefully the GA SoS will clear up the confusion, before the need arises to put anyone on a witness stand (or gallows, as the case may be).
:-/