WASINGTON: President Elect Joe biden has won the Republican stronghold of Georgiasaid a senior state official after a manual recount, becoming the first Democrat to win the key state on the battlefield since 1992.
After a manual recount of nearly five million votes, which lasted for several days, Democrat Biden won by 12,284 votes over the president. Donald trump. Before the count, Biden’s lead was about 14,000 votes.
“Georgia’s landmark first state audit reaffirmed that the state’s new secure paper voting system accurately counted and reported results,” Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Thursday.
Georgia had not voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since Bill clinton in 1992.
Officials said the audit confirmed that there was no widespread fraud or irregularities in the elections held on November 3.
“This is a credit to the hard work of our county and local election officials who moved quickly to undertake and complete such a momentous task in a short period of time,” said the Republican official.
Georgia has been a traditional Republican stronghold. Biden is the first Democratic president Georgia has won since 1992. Election results in Georgia, which has 16 electoral college votes, are expected to be certified on Friday.
Biden was declared the winner of the presidential election on November 7 after putting Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin in the column of the Democrats.
With Georgia’s 16 electoral votes, Biden will now have 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232.
Trump beat Georgia by 5 percentage points in 2016 over Democrat Hillary Clinton.
Meanwhile, Trump’s campaign chief legal counsel Jenna Ellis accused the media of falsely reporting that Biden has been declared the winner in Georgia, as the state has yet to certify his results.
“Headlines are already falsely reporting that Biden was declared the winner in Georgia. Sorry, media, that’s not how it works. The state of Georgia hasn’t certified its results, and it shouldn’t.
“This so-called manual recount went exactly as we expected because Georgia simply counted all of the illegal ballots that had been included in the total. We continue to require Georgia to conduct an honest recount, including signature matching. We intend to pursue all options. legal ballots to ensure that only legal ballots are counted, “Ellis said.
President Trump has refused to grant the November 3 US election and has filed multiple lawsuits challenging the poll results in various states.
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