Officials certify DeKalb election, LaVista Hills supporters skeptical
DeKalb Election officials on Friday vouched for the accuracy of the referendum that narrowly defeated the creation of a city of LaVista Hills, even as cityhood supporters suspected misconduct and called for a revote.
An investigation into allegations of election tampering will continue looking for irregularities. Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp's office and the GBI launched the investigation Thursday after a DeKalb elections supervisor said some voters were turned away from their polling places, voter material wasn't properly secured and he discovered a loose voting machine memory card.
DeKalb election officials triple-checked vote totals from voting machines and tabulation computers, and everyone’s votes were accounted for, said DeKalb Elections Director Maxine Daniels.
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Mark Niesse is an enterprise reporter and covers elections and Georgia government for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and is considered an expert on elections and voting. Before joining the AJC, he worked for The Associated Press in Atlanta, Honolulu and Montgomery, Alabama. He also reported for The Daily Report and The Santiago Times in Chile.
