Ben Adida
Role at the time: Executive director of VotingWorks, posting on Bluesky
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Response to this claim
The Seminole County Board of Elections did not upload a memory card containing Election Day results into the county's election management system, leaving about 388 ballots out of the county's reported count until the Secretary of State's office flagged the gap.
“Ballot tabulators scan paper ballots and store the data on memory cards. They're not connected to the Internet or to each other, so forgetting a memory card happens.”
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Why we used this label
The reference point is Seminole County's handling of its November 3, 2026 Election Day count, which left about 388 ballots out of the reported results until the Secretary of State's office flagged the gap on November 6. Adida treats a forgotten memory card as an expected risk of offline tabulators, which downplays the seriousness of the county's omission rather than criticizing it.