They Found 388 Missing Votes! Memory Card Changes Election Lead
A missing election-machine memory card has completely reversed the apparent result of an incredibly close Georgia state House race.
Republican incumbent Gerald Greene appeared to have lost Georgia House District 154 after trailing Democrat Harry James by just 58 votes. Then a routine post-election reconciliation uncovered a major discrepancy: approximately 388 more voters had checked in on Election Day than the number of ballots included in Seminole County’s reported totals.
County officials investigated and discovered that a results memory card had never been uploaded into the election-management system.
Once those votes were added, Greene went from 58 votes behind to approximately 262 votes ahead. A later displayed tally showed Greene leading 10,193 to 9,932—a 261-vote margin.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has opened an investigation into how the card was overlooked, whether required election procedures were followed and what changes are necessary to prevent it from happening again. In Raffensperger’s words, the failure did not merely alter the totals—it changed who was leading the election.
This is Georgia State House District 154, not a race for the United States House. The corrected totals also remained unofficial pending certification, so the discovery flipped the apparent lead rather than overturning a certified winner.
There is currently no evidence that the memory card or ballots were fabricated, altered or tampered with. The confirmed scandal is that hundreds of legitimate votes were left out of the reported result until a post-election check caught the mistake.
We break down the incredible reversal, the state investigation and how one overlooked memory card could narrow the Democrats’ newly won Georgia House majority to a single seat.