They Said A Memory Card Was Missing—Now Officials DENY It!
The Georgia memory-card story that flipped an election lead just took an incredible turn.
Georgia’s secretary of state originally said Seminole County failed to upload a memory card containing hundreds of Election Day votes. Those omitted results moved Republican Gerald Greene from 58 votes behind Democrat Harry James to approximately 262 votes ahead in State House District 154.
Now Seminole County Elections Supervisor Ron Foskey is publicly disputing the central phrase used to describe what happened. Foskey says no physical memory card was ever discovered, missing or found. According to the county, every card was accounted for on election night and the required chain-of-custody procedures were followed.
The county’s explanation is that its Election Management System failed to complete the final validation-and-publish step for the last precinct’s card. The preliminary election-night summary was marked “Unofficial and Incomplete,” and the missing results appeared after officials completed that final software step.
Both sides still agree on the most important fact: 388 valid votes were omitted from the election-night report. A state reconciliation caught the discrepancy because approximately 388 more peopl
Foskey says the physical paper ballots, scanner tape and memory-card data all reconciled to 2,911 ballots in Seminole County. The latest public districtwide total shows Greene leading 10,193 to 9,932—a margin of 261 votes—but the race remains uncalled and no reliable source has yet confirmed a final state-certified winner.
The secretary of state’s investigation remains open and will examine why the results were not properly uploaded, whether required procedures were followed and what must change to prevent a repeat.
This is not the only recent case in which post-election checks uncovered missing or improperly processed results. Iowa officials identified 2,017 absentee ballots missing from unofficial totals, while Wallingford, Connecticut, ordered a recount involving emergency paper ballots. Historical examples in Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin demonstrate why reconciliation and paper records matter.
Those examples do not establish coordinated fraud, and there is currently no evidence that Georgia’s ballots or memory-card data were fabricated or altered.
What is confirmed is that hundreds of legitimate votes were absent from an election-night result—and state and county officials now disagree about exactly how that happened.
We break down the changing explanation, the ongoing investigation and why this enormous correction cannot simply be waved away as if nothing happened.
