A complaint about a ballot in Whitfield County gained national attention and concern sparked by U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Northwest Georgia, but a county elections official said the incident was likely a human error leaving no reason to believe a voting machine malfunctioned.
Shaynee Bryson, county elections supervisor, said in a news release that there was only one complaint about voter machines in the first week of early voting, and the incident on Wednesday was fixed immediately by poll workers.
“While reviewing their printed ballot, the voter remarked that the ballot did not reflect their desired choice,” Bryson said. “A poll worker immediately helped the voter spoil their printed ballot and assisted them in marking their desired choice, which was cast with no further incident.”
Georgia law allows voters to declate their printed ballot spoiled, she said, and to vote again if the printed ballot does not reflect their choices.
If elections officials had any reason to believe the error was from the machine, she said they would have taken it out of service immediately. No machines were taken out of service last week, Bryson said, and no issue with the machine was documented.