Fulton County Elections Director Nadine Williams has notified the Georgia Secretary of State that two ballot scanners failed during early voting, leaving 1,069 ballots unread on their original machines.
Williams is asking the county election board to approve a modified counting process at tonight’s 6:30 p.m. meeting.
In a November 3 memo, Williams detailed a power loss at one site that left a memory card unusable and a persistent paper-jam error at another.
According to the memo, the first failure occurred on October 21 at the Mechanicsville Library early-voting site, where a scanner lost power after 361 ballots had already been scanned.
After the machine restarted, it would no longer operate, and state voting systems staff advised against uploading its memory cards because the data could be corrupted.
Williams proposes rescanning all 361 paper ballots on a central scanner.
The second incident happened on October 26 at the Hugh C. Conley Recreation Center, where a scanner repeatedly displayed a paper-jam error even though staff found no apparent jam. She reports that 708 ballots were affected.
Fulton plans to transfer the original memory cards to another scanner to complete the closeout, with a full paper rescan of those 708 ballots only if the transfer fails.
If the board approves the plan, Williams estimates the work will begin between 7:00 and 7:30 p.m., after polls close.
Staff will announce the start in the public observation area at the Fulton County Election Hub & Operations Center, and the process will be visible to the public.
The Republican National Committee has already responded, stating it will station extra observers to monitor the tabulation of the affected ballots.
GEORGIA: The RNC is on it in Fulton County. We will have extra observers present to monitor the tabulation of ballots affected by the scanner issues.
SEE A PROBLEM? REPORT IT. Our team is on the ground and tracking concerns in real time
— RNC Election Integrity (@RNCVoteProtect) November 3, 2026
In a post on X, the RNC Election Integrity account wrote, “The RNC is on it in Fulton County. We will have extra observers present to monitor the tabulation of ballots affected by the scanner issues,” and directed people to report problems.
This Georgia County has a documented history of tabulation and documentation problems.
County officials have previously acknowledged failures to sign tabulator tapes covering hundreds of thousands of early votes in the 2020 election, and state investigations have examined double-scanning and batch-management issues during the recount.
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