Justin Mealey, a Data scientist with the Data Integrity Group, said Jan. 5 that adjudication of 106,000 votes cast on Election Day in Fulton County, Ga., was “physically not possible.”
Melly spent nine and a half years in the U.S. Navy, worked as a CIA contractor, and worked as a data analyst and programmer for the National Counterterrorism Center. He currently works as a programmer at one of the Big Four accounting firms.
It’s supposed to adjudicate the issue of an incorrectly marked voter that would make it impossible for a tabulator to read the vote. A review team will examine the ballots to determine the “intent” of the voters and count the votes accordingly.
Richard Barron, the director of elections in Fulton County, Ga., said at a news conference on the evening of Nov. 4 that his team had certified 106,000 of the 113,130 ballots scanned that day, and that “those results are in the public.”
“When we talk to people who have been adjudicators, we say, what’s the fastest you can adjudicate a vote?” “It’s about 30 seconds. That’s about as fast as you can adjudicate a vote,” Melly told the show.
“That’s basically two [votes] per minute.” When there are 106,000 votes to process, Melly said, “it takes about 883 man-hours to do it.”
“Physically, it is impossible to adjudicate that many votes one by one. Because even if they had ruled on November 3rd, they would have passed 58,000 by today. So how can you adjudicate 106,000?” It takes into account the time and the number of teams, Melly adds.
“The determination process allowed by Georgia law and election regulations provides for a bipartisan group of citizens to review any ballot in a batch that has been flagged by scanning software as unclear to the voter’s intent,” Jessica Corbitt, a spokeswoman for Fulton County, said in an email earlier.
She said that when a batch of scanned votes goes wrong, it goes into the adjudication process as a whole, but not every vote needs to be adjudicated. The figure Baron cited refers to the total number of votes that went into the adjudication process, not the number of votes that were actually adjudicated.
In an interview with Thought Leader America, Lynda McLaughlin, a member of the Data Integrity Group, pointed to another concern about Georgia’s adjudication process.
“If you put a ballot in and it’s adjudicated, that ballot with the voter’s original intent disappears,” Linda said. “Now you have a new, printed ballot, and they keep it as a record.”
“But that’s not the vote that the voters cast, and the arbiter decides the intent of that vote.”
Linda says that’s why there were two recounts in Georgia and the results were consistent.
“No audit records, no login credentials. The machines are pre-logged in, they don’t even need a login account. You don’t know who made the changes, you can’t track them, “Linda added.” [Voting] is our most important civic responsibility, but there’s absolutely no documentation or record of what we do.”
Linda also noted that Georgia “didn’t change anything at all about the way the general election was conducted” for the Jan. 5 U.S. Senate runoff election.
The Data Integrity Group is a group of data scientists and machine learning experts who analyze public data from the election. From election data in Georgia, the panel found that more than 30,000 Trump votes were deleted and another 12,173 were swapped for Biden.
The group presented its findings in testimony at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing in Georgia on December 30.
“We have no comment on the data integrity group’s speculation, which appears to be based on a misinterpretation of the absentee voting process. We stand by our opinion and we have retained all ballot information by law, “Regina Waller, a spokeswoman for Fulton County, said in an email.
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