Statement Regarding Absentee Ballot Tabulation at State Farm Arena
Nov 3, 2020
Statement Regarding Absentee Ballot Tabulation at State Farm Arena
At approximately 6:07 a.m., the staff at State Farm Arena notified Fulton County Registration & Elections of a water leak affecting the room where absentee ballots were being tabulated. The State Farm Arena team acted swiftly to remediate the issue. Within 2 hours, repairs were complete. No ballots were damaged, nor was any equipment affected. There was a brief delay in tabulating absentee ballots while the repairs were being conducted.
Tonight Fulton County will report results for approximately 86,000 absentee ballots, as well as Election Day and Early Voting results. These represent the vast majority of ballots cast within Fulton County.
As planned, Fulton County will continue to tabulate the remainder of absentee ballots over the next two days. Absentee ballot processing requires that each ballots is opened, signatures verified, and ballots scanned. This is a labor intensive process that takes longer to tabulate than other forms of voting.
Fulton County did not anticipate having all absentee ballots processed on Election Day. Fulton County is committed to ensuring that every vote is counted and will comply with all applicable laws and regulations.