MARIETTA — In its first-ever precertification meeting, the Cobb County Board of Elections was briefed on issues with an electronic election management system which allowed one Cobb voter to cast two ballots and has left roughly 100 Cobb voters incorrectly recorded as not checked-in to the Georgia secretary of state’s system.
Cobb Elections Director Tate Fall said the failures of ePulse, the electronic management system used by elections offices across the state, led to at least 700 Cobb voters being marked as not checked in with the secretary of state-controlled GARVIS (Georgia Registered Voter Information System), causing discrepancies with voter count between Cobb Elections, GARVIS and ePulse.
Issues with system not to affect vote count
Of those 700 Cobb voters, Fall said about 630 have been successfully corrected to be checked in. Even if voters aren’t credited with being checked into GARVIS, Fall said, their vote was still counted when scanned.
“Your vote counted the moment that that ballot went through the scanner, and then when that scanner was uploaded, your vote counted,” she said. “… Just because you don’t have credit in GARVIS, doesn’t mean your vote didn’t count.”