Georgia Counties Finish Up State's Recount As Deadline Nears
Gwinnett County election workers handle ballots as part of the recount for the 2020 presidential election at the Beauty P. Baldwin Voter Registrations and Elections Building on November 16, 2020 in Lawrenceville, Georgia. Megan Varner/Getty Images

More than 2,600 uncounted ballots in pro-Trump Floyd County, Georgia were revealed during a recount of Georgia's presidential race.

Georgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and election official Gabriel Sterling confirmed the news.

During the recount, they discovered that the county's election workers failed to upload votes from a memory card on election night, reported WKYC.

Floyd County GOP Chairman Luke Martin said if the ballots get a recount, they will likely give President Donald Trump nearly 800 net votes in Georgia, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Trump currently leads in Floyd with a 43% margin of difference with Democrat Joe Biden.

Georgia Election Official Calls for Election Director to Step Down

Sterling called the mishap an "amazing blunder" for the election workers as it was clearly not an equipment issue but "a person not executing their job properly."

He said the situation that may require a change from the top of the management, not just on the workers' level.

At a Monday news conference, he said the county's elections director has to step down.

While Martin thinks the error is "concerning," he does not think it was a widespread issue, reported FOX News. He was glad the audit revealed the issue and reiterated that all votes have to be counted.

Other counties have not given reports of uncounted ballots so far and appear to be showing the same numbers as the original ones.

This most significant issue found in the state so far during the recount.

FOX reached out the Floyd County Board of Elections and Voter Registration for comment but did not receive a reply.

Recount Might Not Affect Georgia Vote

The recounts have to be conducted by hand on some five million ballots after Trump and the Republican Party requested for a statewide audit.

Ballots will have to be rescanned and tabulated before results get finalized on Friday, said State Elections Director Chris Harvey.

The uncounted votes were cast during the in-person early voting period in the county at the Floyd County Administration Building, Martin said.

It also appeared that the optical scanner in question for the mishap stopped working after weeks of early voting.

Supposedly, election workers were supposed to rescan all paper ballots on that machine, but roughly half of them were not recorded.

Trump's campaign has repeatedly alleged widespread fraud during the elections, but the unaccounted ballots may only do little to help them with their cause.

Biden currently has a 14,000 gap from Trump in the state and if he does officially emerge victorious, he would be clinching the state's 16 electoral votes.

It may be an unexpected win since Biden would have to flip a historically red southern battleground state.

The recovered votes may also help in GOP Senator David Perdue's race. He is roughly 14,000 votes away from securing 50% of the votes to gain reelection, said a Daily Wire report.

Harvey assured that the recount will have all votes uploaded and the results will reflect what voters truly put in their ballots.

Raffensperger initiated a recount of the votes last week, saying it was important in restoring the public's trust in the 2020 election results.