Georgia secretary of state opens investigation into Seminole County late upload in House race

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced on Friday the launch of an investigation into Seminole County's late upload of a few hundred votes after a discrepancy was discovered during the state's post-election review and canvassing process. 

According to the announcement, during routine post-election checks, the Secretary of State's office identified that there were approximately 388 more voters recorded as having checked in at polling places on Election Day compared to the number of ballots reported as cast in Seminole County.

When the office notified county election officials of the discrepancy, the Seminole County Board of Elections determined that a memory card containing election results had not been uploaded to the county's election management system.

"Georgia's election safeguards are designed to identify discrepancies, and that is exactly what these guardrails did," Raffensperger said in a statement. 

On Sunday, the Seminole County elections supervisor told WTXL denied Raffensperger's allegations that a memory card was discovered when the discrepancy was pointed out. He said all precinct card chain-of-custody protocols were followed and that all memory cards were accounted for on election night.

He said that the election management system computer had not completed its program for the final memory card, and the election summary report was marked unofficial and incomplete. The final report from the system, the supervisor said, included the 388 ballots.