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."
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.
But in 2020, adjudication played a much larger role in states like Georgia, which allowed hundreds of thousands of additional citizens to vote absentee for the first time during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In all, more than 5,000 of the 148,000 absentee ballots cast — or about 3% — in Georgia's largest county required some form of human intervention, according to logs obtained from Fulton County by Just the News under an open records act request.
read more here: https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/georgia-ballot-adjudication-spoiled
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Not completely correct: 93% adjudication rate for absentee ballots in Fulton county (@ 93,000 votes). I wonder who they were changed to? I also wonder haw many ballots for Biden were separated and scanned multiple times. We have the best technology in the world, yet it can't stop people from cheating. A scanned ballot for counting should have software designed so it can only be scanned once per registered voter. It's not rocket science. Also, per Ga Law, I believe all rejected ballots are required, per ga law, to be set aside and a 5 person bipartisan panel must decide who the voter intended on voting for. I'm sorry, this is not a Florida hanging Chad issue. If the voter checked both boxes, other than tracking them down & asking, there is no way to determine voter intent and, I'm sorry, the vote doesn't count. I also wonder how many ballots were for trump & someone at the voting Precinct. Checked the other box so the vote would be rejected. Also, to close, how does a 5 person bipartisan panel adjudicate 93,000 ballots in less than 24 hours. They all should be thrown in jail.
I swear by God that these people are Prime Examples of the capability of having an "Erotic Dream" and awakening to find they cave "Contacted a Sexually Transmitted Disease!"
Lynn Bryant DeSpain
It is jujst a matter of time before the democrats will be forced to admit that they won by fraud.
Don't hold your breath. They never will! It may be proven beyond a doubt, but the demockrats will never admit it!
Looks like California Democrats are promoting election fraud so Newsome can cheat to win:
https://californiaglobe.com/section-2/legislature-authorized-openin...
Too bad this and other things are being found at this late date.