More Uncounted Votes Found In GOP-Leaning Fayette County

FAYETTEVILLE, GA — More than 2,700 uncounted votes were discovered in another heavily Republican Georgia county during the recount ordered by Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.

Fayette County Elections Director Floyd Jones concluded that the 2,760 newly counted ballots added a net gain of 449 votes for President Donald Trump over President-elect Joe Biden, according to The Citizen in Fayetteville. Trump had already beaten Biden in Fayette County’s initial count, 35,653 to 30,789.

The ballots were initially misplaced when a technician for Dominion Voting Systems replaced a memory card not accounted for by the elections director, according to a Tuesday letter to commissioners from County Administrator Steve Rapson.

The audit caught the mistake and corrected the vote count, said Gabriel Sterling, Georgia’s voting system manager, as reported by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Fayette County’s discovery of uncounted votes comes a day after Floyd County, which also leans Republican, unearthed 2,500 ballots that had been missed because of a malfunctioning scanner. Fayette County is located on the south side of metro Atlanta, while Floyd County is near the northwest corner of Georgia.

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