On Monday, the Georgia State Election Board (SEB) is set to vote on a rule amendment that would require all county boards of elections to comply with new procedures to enforce current state requirements that the number of ballots, number of votes, and number of voters in election tallies come out equal.
Georgia saw more than 3,000 ballots double-scanned during the 2020 presidential recount in Fulton County. It is unclear how many — if any — of the double scanned ballots were counted twice as votes, since the Georgia secretary of state’s office could not confirm it, according to the Atlanta-Journal Constitution.
Kevin Moncla, who filed a complaint alleging potential violations of Georgia’s election code in Fulton County, tells The Federalist he believes the double-scanned ballots were indeed counted twice since he says they appeared in the cast vote record. A streamlined reconciliation process would catch a repeat of this election malfeasance by identifying more votes tallied than the amount of voters who voted.
But Moncla tells The Federalist it wasn’t just that more than 3,000 ballots were double scanned.
“In the hand count they found approximately 6,000 ballots in four different counties that were missing or hadn’t been counted, and that means that no one is reconciling,” Moncla explained. “It’s not a one-off in Fulton, it’s a pervasive and systemic problem. Reconciliation is like a stool: you need all three legs and if you don’t have them all, then you’re going to fall.” Those “three legs,” he said,
