As President Donald Trump and his supporters struggle to hold on to power through unproven claims of voter fraud, Georgia officials are once again debunking a firestorm of social media rumors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Georgia Secretary of State\u2019s Office said Monday there is no truth to allegations circulating in social media that voting machines in Ware County had been seized or that they somehow revealed tampering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis is another of the falsehoods being pedaled by conspiracy advocates trying to convince the gullible of why the presidential election didn\u2019t turnout as they\u2019d hoped,\u201d said Walter Jones, the office’s communications manager for voter education and a conservative former journalist. \u201cNo voting machines have been seized. No one has unearthed evidence of \u2018vote flipping\u2019 because it didn\u2019t happen. And no one has discovered some secret algorithm for altering the election outcome because that\u2019s nonsense.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A statewide hand recount<\/a> as part of a post-election audit resulted in a difference of 37 additional votes for the president in Ware County. That totals 0.26 percent, well below the average 1% to 2% variation demonstrated by academic research when comparing the accuracy of manual counts compared to machine counts because of normal human error<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to the secretary of state’s office, the small vote change is evidence of humans being less precise than machines at counting. Allegations that the small difference somehow proves the machines flipped votes is irresponsible and reckless, Jones said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n