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Fulton County Elections Director Richard Barron said his staff and volunteers have about 14,000 mail-in ballots left to count, adding that they have been counting at a rate of about 3,000 ballots per hour.
His team, many of whom have been working since 8 a.m. ET, have so far counted 127,948 ballots and awarded 123,716, he said.
Barron, who leads the tally in Georgia’s most populous country, which includes Atlanta, said he feels a responsibility to get ballots counted as quickly as possible. Earlier in the evening, he said his team would not stop until all the ballots had been counted.
“Georgia is one of the last states that hasn’t been called up,” he told CNN’s Nick Valencia. “It’s our responsibility to get these things counted tonight if we can, at least to help the process so people have the peace of mind that all votes are counted in Georgia.”
The county has tabulated all in-person votes and now only counts absentee votes. The only remaining votes would be the provisional and military overseas votes that expire on Friday. At 1:20 a.m., CNN election data gave Joe Biden a 73% to 26% lead in Fulton Country.
CNN’s Nick Valencia has more:
