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Seventy-four counties in Georgia have failed to produce original images of more than 17,000 ballots from the November 2020 election, according to VoterGA, a not-for-profit election monitoring organisation. Last year Joe Biden won the state by a razor-thin margin of 0.23 percent or 11,779 votes.

Of 74 counties surveyed by the VoterGA team, 56 counties admitted that most or all of the images created automatically by the Dominion voting system to tabulate results have been destroyed, the entity's press release says, explaining that the watchdog's volunteers made the decision by submitting Open Records Requests (ORR) for the images to each county.

The development has piqued the watchdog's interest since federal law USC 52 20701 and the Georgia Election Code require election documents to be kept respectively for 22 or 24 months. These documents are generally considered to include electronic ones, according to VoterGA.

The not-for-profit body elaborated that usually the Dominion voting system automatically creates images for in-person voted ballots on compact flash memory cards. When it comes to mail-in ballots, the system automatically creates images for them on memory flash drives. After that, the cards or drives are manually uploaded to the country's Election Management Server (EMS). Some counties also use high-speed scanners to transfer ballot images automatically to the EMS to speed the process up.

56 Counties Have No Original Images, 18 Counties Largely Ignored Requests

At least 28 counties told VoterGA volunteers that they had no original images and 22 of those counties only had recount images that some claimed are the same as originals. The election monitoring watchdog argues that the lack of original images makes audits in the counties impossible, since "recount images don’t have original timestamps" and don’t have "original metadata that shows how votes were initially interpreted". In addition, recount images can be changed by tampering with scans which also make them invalid for an election audit, argues the entity.

74 Georgia Counties Can’t Produce Original 2020 Election Ballot Images https://t.co/KMFQUmr6jr

— Garland Favorito (@VoterGa) November 10, 2021

VoterGA also received emails from another 28 counties which admitted that they do not have a complete set of original images. "Various counties were missing all in-person voting images, all absentee images, all Election Day images or a substantial portion of one or more of those groups," the press release highlights.

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