On Monday (7), Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger recertified the results of the presidential election after a second recount, both of which upheld Biden’s victory. But Coffey County Board of Elections officials sent a letter to the secretary of state last week saying they could not certify the results after the second recount.
In the letter, Coffee County election officials said they could not certify the electronic recount results because they could not duplicate the exact same trustworthy election results.
“Any system, whether financial counting, voting or otherwise, that is not repeatable nor reliable should not be used.” In the letter, Coffey County officials wrote that “requiring certification of clearly inaccurate results neither satisfies the true objectivity of the election system nor fulfills the legal obligation to certify electronic vote counts.”
In addition to the letter, Coffey County election officials sent a document to Laffensperger’s office describing the lack of credibility of the electronic count and emphasizing the inability of any election board to address the anomalies shown in the document.
On Wednesday night, the Secretary of State’s office announced that it had opened an investigation into the Coffey County recount, local Georgia television station WALB reported on Wednesday night.
According to a press release from the Secretary of State’s office, all county recounts were to be completed by midnight Wednesday night (Dec. 2), as directed by the Secretary of State. By Thursday, six counties had completed their recount uploads. And Coffey County officials were working Thursday with the Secretary of State’s office and Dominion Voting Systems to resolve a discrepancy of 50 ballots that had arisen.
Coffey County is the only county that has not completed its recount upload, according to the secretary of state’s office, which said the morning of Dec. 4 that it received a letter from the Coffey County Board of Elections saying they would not certify their recount.
The Secretary of State’s office said Coffey County blamed the 50 ballot discrepancy on the voting system in the letter, however, officials did not indicate what mechanical problems they were experiencing.
The Secretary of State’s office notified Ms. Misty Martin, director of the Coffey County Board of Elections, that she must resolve the problems with the recount. Martin said she would rescan some of the ballots, but the scanner kept having problems. Members of the Secretary of State’s election team spoke with Martin again until the morning of the 7th, and Martin said she planned to scan the ballots again at noon.
Eventually, Martin “finished” uploading the recount.
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