Vote Count: Biden Confirmed Winner in Georgia

President-elect Biden won in the state of Georgia. This was confirmed by a count. Consequently, the Democrat is still 12,200 votes ahead of Trump.

Following the counting of votes cast in the US presidential elections in Georgia, state authorities confirmed the victory of Democrat Joe Biden.

The manual counting of the votes showed “that the original machine-based vote count correctly reproduced the winner of the election,” the website of Georgia elections official Brad Raffensperger said that night.

Count due to extremely tight election results

The Georgian authorities had decided to recount due to the extremely tight election result. By the first machine count, Biden was only about 14,000 votes ahead of incumbent Donald Trump. After the hand count, Biden’s lead decreased slightly to 12,200 votes.

Because Biden’s lead is still very limited, the president of the United States may request a recount after the election results have been recorded, the Raffensperger statement said. Trump has yet to acknowledge his defeat against opposition candidate Biden and denounces alleged massive electoral fraud without any evidence.

Power in the Senate is also decided in Georgia

For Democrats, the victory in Georgia is extraordinary. In 2016, Trump won there by five percentage points over Hillary Clinton. In 2020, the Democrats’ campaign focused heavily on Georgia, where no Democratic presidential candidate has won since Bill Clinton in 1992.

The two Senate seats were also up for grabs and will be decided in a runoff in January. The result decides on the majority in the Senate of Washington. Nearly five million votes have been counted. This was done on the basis of a new US state law, and not as a result of problems or an official recount request.