The Independent View: GA 37-Vote Change was Result of Human Error Not Vote-Flipping Voting Machines

Since Election Day, Baseless Allegations that Vote Counting Software, from Dominion Voting Systems, Deleted Votes for Trump or Switched them to Biden have Proliferated on the Internet.

Dominion Voting Systems has repeatedly Denied Claims that its Machines Deleted or Switched Votes. A Statement on its Website notes that "all baseless claims have been debunked by election officials, subject matter experts and third-party fact-checkers."

But the 37-Vote Change was the Result of Human Error, not Vote-Flipping,

It is true that the State's Full Hand Recount of Paper Ballots Resulted in 37 More Votes for Trump in Ware County. But the Change was Not Due to an Issue with Dominion's Voting Machines.

Ware County Election Supervisor, Carlos Nelson, said that an Election Worker made a Small Tabulation Error that involved the 37 Votes.

Election Officials discovered the Mistake during an Internal Audit and Corrected the Figure in the Full Hand Recount of Paper Ballots. There was Never an Issue with the Technology from Dominion.

“There was no vote flipping,” Nelson said. “The system worked like it should.”

The 37 Votes also made No Difference in the Election Result in Ware County, where Trump Won by about 70%.

Walter Jones, a Spokesperson for the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office, said in a Press Release that the “Small Vote Change is only Evidence that Humans are less Precise than Machines at Counting. No voting machines have been seized, no one has unearthed evidence of ‘vote flipping’ because it didn’t happen. And no one has discovered some secret algorithm for altering the election outcome because that’s nonsense.” he said.

Gabriel Sterling, the Voting Implementation Manager for the Secretary of State's Office, also Debunked the Claim on Twitter. Sterling referenced the Results of a Recent Forensic Audit of Voting Machines by a U.S. Election Assistance Commission-Certified Voting System Test Laboratory that found "no evidence of the machines being tampered."

At the Federal Level, a Coalition of Top Election Security Officials concluded on Nov. 12th that "there is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised."