GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — Gwinnett County officials say a software issue is preventing them from processing tens of thousands of mail-in ballots.
Channel 2′s Tony Thomas has learned that as many as 80,000 mail-in ballots are not processing properly, but the number is much closer to 3,000.
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Gwinnett County communications director Joe Sorensen told ABC News that the county had processed over 118,000 absentee ballots and they were ready to push through the system, but the software held a little more than half of the ballots for adjudication. Adjudication means the ballots need to be reviewed by a human being and reentered.
An election security expert told ABC News that when machines determine that one ballot in the batch requires additional human review, it may flag the entire batch of ballots as need review.
County officials said they will continue to push all the ballots through overnight.
As of 1 a.m., 97% of the precincts in Gwinnett County were reporting.
Channel 2 Action News will continuous coverage as results come in. Download the WSB Now app on your Roku, Amazon Fire or Apple TV to watch LIVE.
In Fulton County, a pipe burst at State Farm Arena, delaying poll workers from processing some ballots. Elections officials sent absentee ballot counters home, despite saying earlier that they would process ballots through the night.
The Arena is the county’s largest ballot processing center.
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