In a moment that should infuriate every American who still believes in election integrity, DeKalb County, Georgia officials have finally admitted what skeptics of machine-based voting have been saying for over 20 years: the tabulation machines were flat-out wrong.
In a newly surfaced video clip, DeKalb County Board of Elections Attorney Brent Herrin is seen telling the Georgia State Election Board that “tabulating machines were not accurate,” while Elections Director Keisha Smith nods along like a bobblehead. Their solution? A hand recount. And guess what? The hand recount revealed a massive, undeniable error.
The case in question comes from the May 22, 2024, District 2 Commission primary. A candidate — who shall remain unnamed only because the media doesn’t seem to care — noticed that she had received zero votes in the precinct where she and her husband voted. Sound familiar? It should — because rigged outcomes like this have been dismissed as “conspiracy theories” for years.
When she reported the problem, the Election Board ordered a machine recount. Shockingly, the machines repeated the same false results. It wasn’t until a hand recount was conducted that the truth came out: she had actually received 4,078 votes, not the 1,029 originally reported. That’s a discrepancy of over 74% — a massive miscount. The machines had given 1,456 of her votes to an opponent and simply failed to count another 1,805. No explanation has been provided for those missing votes.
Let that sink in: nearly two thousand votes just vanished into the digital void.
The DeKalb Election Board later blamed a “ballot alignment error” following a candidate withdrawal. But they still can’t — or won’t — explain how those 1,805 votes disappeared. And the Secretary of State’s office made things worse by giving poor instructions, including disabling one candidate’s votes in a failed attempt to resolve the problem.
This isn’t just a Georgia issue. Tennessee’s Secretary of State has already recommended ditching the nearly identical Dominion Democracy Suite 5.5 voting system for similar failures.
And ask yourself: What if this candidate hadn’t raised the red flag after seeing “zero” next to her name? How many times has this happened unnoticed?
No one knows. And that’s the problem.
This is a national security issue. We don’t need more opaque machines and complex software. We need to unplug these digital disasters and return to publicly recorded hand counts — the most transparent, verifiable way to count votes.
No QR codes. No secret proprietary software. No vote flipping. Just paper, people, and public oversight.
Because democracy shouldn’t depend on a glitchy machine with a history of getting it wrong.
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