Georgia secretary of state slams 'dysfunction' in Fulton County recount

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger slammed Fulton County, home to Atlanta, for "dysfunction" amid a statewide recount requested by the Trump campaign after the state certified its results for President-elect Joe Biden.

"Us and our office, and I think the rest of the state, is getting a little tired of always having to wait on Fulton County and always having to put up with their dysfunction," Raffensperger said on Tuesday. "They can still make it by our midnight Wednesday deadline, but they seem to want to make it a dramatic finish."

Georgia is nearing 50 counties completed (out of 159) for the recount, and Fulton is the largest that is incomplete, Raffensperger said.

Fulton County has made headlines for issues counting votes, including a newly purchased Dominion Voting Systems mobile server crashing and a reporting issue requiring officials to rescan more than 300,000 ballots.

"The real issue is a Fulton County employee made several compounding errors," Raffensperger said. "Instead of following the procedures that my office and the vendor laid out, Fulton County once again cut corners. The biggest one being [the employee] backed up the election project on the server itself instead of on an external backup. Because of that decision, they lost the ability to upload hundreds of thousands of scanned ballots."

Raffensperger also criticized Fulton County for its "concerning" decision to cease work around 5 p.m... (Read more)

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