Spalding County’s Board of Elections will be meeting tomorrow to discuss the matter. The chair, Margaret Bentley, says that “Director Marcia Ridley has my full support and I have no intention of asking for her resignation.” https://t.co/M8MiYFUiI7
— Eli (@elium2) December 2, 2020
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is pressuring a county election official to resign for what his office calls “serious management issues and poor decision-making during the November 3 general election.”
The official, Spalding County Elections Supervisor Marcia Ridley, made decisions after voting machines in her county stopped working that Raffensperger says denied voters “a quick and reliable voting experience.”
There’s no physical difference between a provisional ballot and an emergency ballot in Georgia. The distinction is that emergency ballots are scanned immediately (like non-provisional Election Day votes), whereas provisional ballots go through an eligibility determination.
— Eli (@elium2) December 1, 2020
Ridley made headlines last month by calling attention to unusual updates being made to voting machines the night before the election.
“That is something that they don’t ever do. I’ve never seen them update anything the day before the election,” Ridley said at the time. That update, Ridley contends, caused the “glitch” that halted voting on Election Day.
Dominion has denied such an update took place.
Raffensperger’s office said spreading such a “rumor…greatly harmed election integrity in Georgia and provided talking points for those looking to undermine elections in the Peach State.”
Numerous county officials, including the Spalding County Board of Elections and Registrations Chairwoman, have come to Ridley’s defense however. As of now she has no intention to step down.