Democrat Loses ‘Flipped’ Georgia Seat After ‘Missing’ Memory Card Found
8th November 2026
Georgia Democrats spent the week celebrating their first state House majority in more than two decades. Then the secretary of state’s office found an Election Day memory card in Seminole County that had never been uploaded.
Republican state Rep. Gerald Greene went from trailing Democrat Harry James by 58 votes to leading him by 262 once the card’s votes were added on Friday, according to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office, which has opened an investigation into the county’s late upload. By Saturday, the state’s results page had Greene at 10,193 votes to 9,932 for James in House District 154, a nine-county seat in southwest Georgia.
The state’s elections staff caught it in a routine post-election check. In Seminole County, approximately 388 more voters were recorded as having checked in at polling places on Election Day than ballots were reported as cast, the office said. It alerted the county, which then realized it had missed a memory card, state elections director Blake Evans told the AJC.
“Our office identified a significant discrepancy, alerted county officials, and uncovered a failure to properly upload election results,” Raffensperger said in a statement. “This oversight didn’t just affect the numbers – it changed who was leading an election.”
“That is unacceptable, and we intend to find out exactly how it happened,” he added.