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Nov. 26, 2022 - Epoch Times
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Uncounted Votes on “Lost” Memory Card Flips Election Result in Georgia
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If you have been following what's been happening to the American election system over the past 20 years now, then you probably have the same question as I did.
Can one little memory card flip an entire election?
Well, if that election happens to be in Cobb County, Georgia, then the answer is decidedly yes.
Because you see, in a shocking development, after the midterm election was over, and all the winners for the local races were already called, someone happened to discover a memory card just laying around that was previously overlooked.
This was a memory card from one of the tabulation machines containing vote counts which previously were not included in the official tallies, meaning that this was a memory card containing about 800 valid votes that were just never tallied.
And so, after they were added back in, and the results of the election were recertified, well, the winner of the local city council race was actually flipped.
That's because prior to this memory card fiasco, Ms.
Madeline Arcana, she was originally declared to be the winner of a post on the city council within Kennesaw City.
Which is located in Cobb County.
And as you can imagine, after being declared the winner, well, Miss Madeline was quite happy, and she was telling her followers on social media about where and when they can tune in to view her swearing-in ceremony.
Here was a statement that she made to a local news outlet.
Quote, I plan to celebrate with family and friends and supporters afterwards.
We had no reason to expect otherwise.
However, this is where things took a turn, you can say, for the absurd.
Because in an age where we have all these different technological developments, well, it appears that, for some reason, our election tabulation is not quite keeping pace.
That's because, shortly after being declared the winner, Ms.
Orkana released this statement on social media, quote, I've been certified the winner, but I forgot to smash that like button so things aren't going that well.
Now, I am, of course, just kidding about that, but it does appear to be true that 100% of the people who did not smash that like button as well as that subscribe button, well, they had their elections overturned over in Cobb County.
Just something to think about.
That aside, though, here's what her statement actually said.
Quote, Wednesday, November 16th, around 4 p.m., a day after the election results were certified, I received a phone call from Cobb Elections.
I was told, quote, a memory card from the Kennesaw 3A precinct was not uploaded properly and failed to report on election night through certification.
Today, as we prepare reports for the statewide risk-limiting audit, we discovered that only ballot images were present in the system and not ballot results.
And so, with this new memory card in hand, the election officials came in and they re-tallied the ballots.
And with these additional votes added in, well, wouldn't you know it?
The results were actually flipped, and Ms.
Madeline Orkenna, she was stripped of her victory by a new margin of just 31 votes.
The new winner of the election was actually her opponent.
Here was a second part of her statement.
Again, this was released by Ms.
Madeline Orkena shortly after she found out, quote, Once the correction was made and the 789 ballots from that card were included, your race outcome changed and Ms.
Burnett came out ahead.
The election official also stated that, quote, They plan to recertify the results on Friday.
I formally requested a recount.
I will be filing a formal complaint to the Secretary of State and I'm reaching out to legal counsel.
Now, the recount that she requested did indeed take place, and it indeed changed the results of the election such that her opponent was certified as the new winner.
Which only makes things more interesting, given the fact that Ms.
Madeline Orkena says that her opponent, the one who was certified as the winner, is virtually unknown in the community.
Here is the last part of her statement.
Quote,"...as for Ms.
Burnett, who is the new winner of the election, I, nor any other candidates whom I have spoken to, know anything about her." She didn't attend city council meetings.
She listed no contact information in her qualifying papers.
To my knowledge, she did not respond to any local media for any candidate questionnaires.
She did not participate in the Q&A or the local meet and greet with the rest of the candidates.
I'm unaware of any campaign website or platform.
And indeed, just like it's mentioned in this statement, according to a report from the Cobb County Courier, the local media in the county, out of the five different candidates running for this post, Ms.
Burnett appears to have been the least active.
Here's what that report said, quote, While Orkena and the five other candidates visibly campaigned and participated in city and candidate events, Burnett has not spoken publicly about her run and only released a statement through a spokesperson calling it an, quote, unconventional election and that she, quote, looks forward to keeping Kennesaw the best community.
Regardless of all that, though, with the new memory card in hand, Ms.
Lynn Burnett was indeed certified as the winner.
And at this point, I'm sure there are many questions that you're wondering, such as, for instance, what political parties did these two women represent?
And that is not exactly clear.
In these local races, very often candidates don't actually declare allegiance to any particular party, and instead they just run on the issues.
And so if you take a look at the ballot for Kennesaw City Council, the special election, you'll see that all the candidates have NP next to their names, meaning no party.
And so your guess is as good as anyone's.
Now, in terms of how this could have happened, well, that is the big $100 million question.
How could election results come in, be certified, while you still have memory cards out there from tabulation machines just floating around, remaining uncounted?
Well, initially, the election officials in Cobb County refused to give any further details, such as why the card was overlooked and even where it was located when it was eventually found.
They only confirmed that it was a fact that the missing card was found and the tallies were updated.
In fact, to this very day, the only thing that's even close to an official explanation is found over on CobbCounty.org, wherein it says this under the post for November 18th.
And that's it.
Why was the card not included?
What processes do they have in place to stop this from happening?
And were those processes actually followed?
It's also unclear.
However, a local newspaper in the Cobb County area interviewed an official We have a checklist in the receiving group that opens the pouch, checks the seal, Opens the pouch and counts that the memory cards have been returned.
So in this case, they have a checklist that says there is either one scanner or two scanners at that polling location.
The receiver in this case checked the checklist.
There were two memory cards.
They marked two on their checklist and handed it to the person that was uploading it to the tabulation machine.
She didn't check her checklist that said there were two and reached into the bag, pulled one memory card out and uploaded it, put that card back into the pouch and handed it off to another worker.
And so there you have it.
A seemingly simple human error caused an entire election to be called one way, only to be flipped a few days later.
Now, of course, we're not allowed to ask any further questions, at least on this platform, but frankly, the ease in which this mistake supposedly happened does make me wonder how often such a mistake occurs, especially given the fact that we have quite literally over 2,000 counties across all of America.
How often does this type of thing occur and just never get caught?
Although perhaps it is very rare and hardly ever happens.
Who knows?
In fact, I would love to know your thoughts on this particular matter.
Do you agree with the official narrative that this was just a human error?
And do you think that the fact that it was discovered at all is actually a good thing and shows that the proper safeguards are in place within our election system I'd love to know your thoughts.
Please leave them in the comments section below.
I'll be reading them over the weekend.
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And then, until next time, I'm your host, Roman from the Epic Times.
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