Search for election fraud in Georgia finds 200 ballots scanned twice

Double-counted ballots were discovered by voters suing Fulton in an effort to persuade a judge to allow them to conduct an in-depth inspection of 147,000 absentee ballots.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution also verified the duplicate ballots in ballot images obtained under the Georgia Open Records Act and posted online.

See Fulton ballots with unclear markings and how officials ruledThe overall number of ballots counted in Georgia generally matched the number of voters who checked in at polling places or returned absentee ballots.

Jones said it's possible that an election worker lost track of which absentee ballots had already been scanned in the initial count and then ran them through the machine again.

Jones, hired by the State Election Board to observe Fulton's elections after last year's primary, recommended that the county change absentee ballot processing during the recount and runoff, boxing up absentee ballots for storage as soon as they were scanned.

The most obvious example of duplicates in the initial count occurred in a batch of 99 ballots first scanned the morning of Oct. 28, then scanned again about an hour later, with the second batch tallied in exact reverse order from the first.

Those batches had 58 votes for Biden, 39 for Trump, one for Libertarian Jo Jorgensen and one for West.Part or all of another batch of 98 ballots appeared to be scanned a second time within minutes on election night.

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