Fayette has become the second county to report an issue with missing votes after Floyd County uncovered 2,600 votes that were missed during the initial count on election night.
The Georgia Secretary of State’s Office, Gabriel Sterling says Fayette county has found missing votes during their audit of the ballots in the presidential race.
Fayette County uncovered 2,755 votes that were not included in the initial count during the hand recount. Gabriel Sterling confirmed that those ballots were count were scanned onto a card, but the votes were never uploaded into the initial count. Sterling later blamed workers for not following procedures as there were several backups designed to catch the issue.
“Of the newly-added ballots, 1,577 were for President Donald Trump, 1,128 were for Joe Biden and the remainder were for Libertarian candidate Jo Jorgensen or write-in candidates.” WSBTV reported.
