Georgia Hand Tally Of Votes Is Complete, Affirms Biden Lead

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Officials sort ballots during an audit at the Georgia World Congress Center on Saturday, Nov. 14, 2020, in Atlanta. Election officials in Georgia's 159 counties are undertaking a hand tally of the presidential race that stems from an audit required by state law. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

ATLANTA (AP) — A top Georgia election official said Thursday that a hand tally of ballots cast in the presidential race has been completed, and that the results affirm Democrat Joe Biden’s narrow lead over Republican President Donald Trump.

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The hand tally of about 5 million votes stemmed from an audit required by a new state law and wasn’t in response to any suspected problems with the state’s results or an official recount request. The state has until Friday to certify results that have been certified and submitted by the counties.

The counties were supposed to finish the hand count by 11:59 p.m. Wednesday. Gabriel Sterling, who oversaw the implementation of the state’s new voting system, said Thursday evening that the audit was complete. Results were posted on the secretary of state’s website.

No individual county showed a variation in margin larger than 0.73%, and the variation in margin in 103 of the state’s 159 counties was less than 0.05%, Sterling said.

“Every single vote was touched by a human audit team and counted,” he said. “Obviously, the audit confirms the original result of the election, namely that Joe Biden won the presidential contest in the state of Georgia.”

The results that will be certified are the totals certified by the counties, not those resulting from the audit.

Once the state certifies the election results, the losing campaign has two business days to request a recount since the margin remains within 0.5%. That recount would be done using scanners that read and tally the votes and would be paid for by the counties, the secretary of state’s office has said.

The Associated Press has not declared a winner in Georgia.

It was up to Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to select the race to be audited, and he said the presidential race made the most sense because of its significance and the tight margin separating the candidates. Because of that small margin, Raffensperger said a full hand recount was necessary.

Votes that hadn’t previously been counted were found in several counties during the audit, which required recertification of the election results in those counties.

In Floyd County, more than 2,500 ballots were discovered during the audit that hadn’t previously been scanned, and the secretary of state’s office had called for the firing of the county’s chief elections clerk, Robert Brady. The county elections board on Thursday voted to issue a written reprimand to Brady and, because it was his second written reprimand within six months, to fire him in accordance with county policy, board member Melanie Conrad said in an email.

Several other counties found memory cards with votes that hadn’t been uploaded and counted prior to the audit.


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PaulinSaudi
PaulinSaudi
3 years ago

I am so pleased that our election system works.

Lawsuit
Lawsuit
3 years ago

President Donald Trump’s campaign will file a lawsuit in Georgia as soon as Nov. 20, according to Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani.

“We’re about to file a major lawsuit in Georgia,” Giuliani, former New York City mayor, told reporters at a Nov. 19 press conference.

The lawsuit will include voter fraud allegations, among other charges.

“In the city of Atlanta, Republicans were not allowed to watch the absentee mail-in ballot process,” Giuliani said. “Inspections completely cast aside. And we have numerous double voters, we have numerous out-of-state voters, and we have specific evidence of intimidation and changes of vote. That will all be in the lawsuit that comes out tomorrow.” from epochtimes.com

Stam Misha
Stam Misha
3 years ago

I demand a recount!
ok
one for martin, two for martin…

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America First
America First
3 years ago

Bought and paid for by Soros. This needs to go to the supreme court.

Democrats support Jew haters and terrorists.
Democrats support Jew haters and terrorists.
3 years ago

Well duh, if you cant the same illegal votes, no matter how many times, the count will be the same, ghis is why there needsbto be an audit to remove the illegal counted votes, not just count them again.