{"id":668811,"date":"2026-11-08T21:16:35","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T01:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/668811\/"},"modified":"2026-11-08T21:16:35","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T01:16:35","slug":"388-uncounted-votes-found-in-georgia-republican-candidate-leads-after-overturning-democratic-lead-investigation-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/668811\/","title":{"rendered":"388 Uncounted Votes Found in Georgia; Republican Candidate Leads After Overturning Democratic Lead, Investigation Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Atlanta: In the U.S. state of Georgia, the results of the midterm election held on November 3 in a key state legislative district have been reversed following the discovery of hundreds of uncounted votes. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced an investigation into the matter after it was found that information on a memory card containing election results from Seminole County was not fully uploaded into the vote tallying system. A routine post-election audit revealed a discrepancy of approximately 388 votes between the number of recorded voters and the number of reported votes. In Georgia's 154th State House district, Democratic candidate Harry James had held a 58-vote lead. However, after including the previously omitted votes, incumbent Republican Gerald Greene took a 262-vote lead. These results are subject to final official certification. Initial unofficial results had indicated that Democrats would regain a majority in the 180-member Georgia State Assembly with 93 seats. With the Republican win in the 154th district confirmed, the Democrats\u2019 tally would fall to 92 seats. A majority in the Assembly requires 91 seats. Raffensperger stated that the investigation will examine why the data from the memory card was not incorporated into the election system in a timely manner and whether mandatory procedures were followed. Meanwhile, Seminole County election officials explained in local reports released on November 8 that the memory card containing votes had not been lost and that the technical process to publish the data on the final card had not been completed. They confirmed that all memory cards were accounted for and that procedures were adhered to. There is currently no confirmation that the voting discrepancy resulted from deliberate misconduct. The election results are required to be officially certified by November 9. The incident has drawn increased political attention due to Secretary of State Raffensperger\u2019s reputation as a Republican official who resisted former President Donald Trump\u2019s 2020 demand to alter Georgia\u2019s election results. A significant aspect of this case is that the 388-vote discrepancy was detected only through a routine post-election audit. The ongoing investigation must clarify how the failure to accurately record and report election results occurred.<\/p>\n

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Original Malayalam report: Malayalam Daily News<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Atlanta: In the U.S. state of Georgia, the results of the midterm election held on November 3 in a key state legislative district have been reversed following the discovery of hundreds of uncounted votes. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced an investigation into the matter after it was found that information on a memory card containing election results from Seminole County was not fully uploaded into the vote tallying system. A routine post-election audit revealed a discrepancy of approximately 388 votes between the number of recorded voters and the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":668812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,582,47748],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-6","category-english","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malayalamdailynews.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}