Thousands of Rejected Ballots in Atlanta Were Later Adjudicated and Counted

Matt Margolis : Aug 9, 2021
PJ Media

"The adjudication ballots alone are not enough to change a Georgia election in which Biden and Trump were separated by less than 13,000 votes. However, they reveal an imperfect system vulnerable to chaos, subjectivity, or political dirty tricks, especially in a county like Fulton where state officials documented widespread irregularities and misconduct and now want to take over election counting." -from Just The News report

[PJMedia.com] According to Georgia state law, if a voter "cast more than the permitted number of votes" on a ballot, it is considered "spoiled," and the vote "shall not be reinstated." (Image: Unsplash-Tiffany Tertipes)

Each ballot also has a disclaimer that reads, "If you make a mistake or change your mind or change your mind on a selection do not attempt to mark through the selection or attempt to erase. Write ‘Spoiled' across the ballot and across the return envelope" and request a new ballot.

But thousands of such votes, called overvotes, originally rejected by vote-counting machines, were later altered by election workers and recounted in Fulton, County, Georgia, reports Just The News.

This process is called adjudication, and it means that human judgment is used instead of the machine when a ballot is incorrectly filled out to determine the voter's intent. According to Georgia regulations:

Detection of at least 10% but less than 20% fill-in of the target area surrounded by the oval shall flag the ballot for adjudication by a vote review panel as set forth in O.C.G.A. 21-2-483(g). In reviewing any ballot flagged for adjudication, the votes shall be counted if, in the opinion of the vote review panel, the voter has clearly and without question indicated the candidate or candidates and answers to questions for which such voter desires to vote.

Because of widespread absentee voting, adjudication played a much larger role in 2020 than in past elections. For example, over 5,000 of the 148,000 absentee ballots cast in Fulton County required adjudication, according to logs acquired by Just The News... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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