Thread by @mad_liberals

How accurate was the Fulton County recount?

A ballot expert asked me to count all ballots, grouped by precinct, ballot type, and style and compare it to the recount.

And see how well the recount went. A good recount should have minor differences between the two machine counts.

In Fulton County, the counts barely resembled each other. Only a small handful of precincts had their ballots recounted properly.

Here's a few examples. This will be a multi-post tweet.

This is precinct 03I. The absentee and advanced voting was very close, but if you voted in-person during election day, your votes didn't count in the recount. This happened in multiple precincts.

app.box.com/s/5sbw0wqtji7m…

Here are some more precincts where the election day ballots are missing.

There are some precincts that simply mixed their advanced voting and election day ballots together (they look the same). So even though there is are many missing ballots for Election Day, you can easily see that they were just mislabeled as Advanced Voting. Not an issue.

It is extremely rare to find a 'correct recount' precinct, but there are a few out there. Grats to this one county for getting it right.

This calculation wasn't difficult, so I'd be thrilled to have other ballot experts confirm the data by using a pivot table on the excel cast vote record data and see for yourself!

Thanks!

Here are the cast vote records in excel format.



app.box.com/s/54jh6e29f34b…
app.box.com/s/42ejv0ezpnrc…

And the original count

app.box.com/s/54jh6e29f34b…