A missed memory card did flip a Georgia House race. No sign of fraud.

A Seminole County Election Day card was never uploaded. Adding it turned a 58-vote lead for Democrat Harry James in House District 154 into a 262-vote lead for Republican Gerald Greene. The results are unofficial.

In routine post-election checks, the Secretary of State's office found "approximately 388 more voters recorded as having checked in at polling places on Election Day than the number of ballots reported as cast" in Seminole County. The county then found an Election Day card never uploaded¹.

James led by 58 before the upload, and Greene, the incumbent, led by 262 after it^2,3. The state's results page, updated Nov. 7, now shows Greene at 10,193 and James at 9,932, a 261-vote gap by our calculation, one fewer than the state announced, for reasons not yet explained⁴. Seminole's Precinct 5 shows 354 Election Day votes for Greene and 34 for James⁵. By our reading, that is 388 votes netting 320, the same as the swing. Officials haven't said which precinct the card came from.

If it stands, and with other races still open, Democrats would hold 92 of 180 House seats, one more than the 91 needed for a majority³. Counties must certify by 5 p.m. the Monday after the election, which is Nov. 9⁶.

Greene needed a net gain of 59 votes to pass James. The late votes netted him 320, more than five times that, by our calculation from the reported margins.

A quote-post with about 690,000 views⁷ said the card held "the exact number of votes needed to change the election." James led by 58 before the upload, and Greene led by 262 after it².

The 388 in the post is the gap between Election Day check-ins and counted ballots¹. It isn't a margin. Greene's 261-vote lead on the state's page is about 1.3% of the 20,125 votes cast, by our calculation⁴. That's above the 0.5% margin that gives a losing candidate the right to a recount⁸. A 2026 law adds automatic hand recounts, but only for statewide executive races listed first or second on the ballot and decided by less than 0.5%⁹.

Nothing shows anyone acted on purpose. The late votes match a gap between check-ins and counted ballots. The state is investigating how the card was missed.

The post alleges nothing itself. The fraud reading comes from other posts asking "What are the odds of that" (about 690,000 views)⁷ and "How many other races did they forget to upload memory cards?" (about 116,000)¹⁰.

The gap ran one way: more voters checked in than ballots were counted¹. So the missing ballots most likely came from people the poll books already showed as voting. The printed paper ballot is the official ballot in any recount or audit¹¹. The state is examining "how the memory card was overlooked" and "whether required election procedures were followed"¹. Counties must file a reconciliation report within 30 days after certification¹².

Georgia has missed cards before. The 2020 hand audit found uncounted cards in three counties and 2,600 unscanned ballots in Floyd^13,14. In 2022, a card with 789 ballots changed the projected winner of a Kennesaw council race, and Cobb County scheduled a re-certification¹⁵. We found no report of another gap this year.