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Ballots in Cobb County, Georgia are recalculated by hand.
Every vote has been counted by hand, but there is no indication that Joe Biden’s victory in the important southern state of Georgia is altered. President Donald Trump’s campaign is likely to require another calculation.
At 6 pm Swedish time, the Georgia state government plans to present its “revision” of the ballot, which led to more than five million ballots being checked and counted by hand.
In particular, 2,600 unregistered votes were detected in Floyd County. That these were lost is due to human error when the early voting was recorded, according to information from Gabriel Sterling, head of the state electoral system, to the CNN news channel.
More recalculation?
The ballots have already been counted, prompting Republican Trump to buck Democrat Biden with 778 votes, who prior to that had an advantage of nearly 14,000 votes.
A large number of Georgia’s 159 counties finished their hand count on Wednesday and are reporting zero or very marginal deviations by one or two votes, according to the media. Therefore, the general assessment is that the end result, which Joe Biden won, will not change. The result must be secured by Friday, in accordance with state law.
– The purpose of the audit is to demonstrate that the (original) result was correct, Sterling notes.
However, that shouldn’t stop the Trump campaign from calling for another recalculation. It is legal in Georgia when the margin of victory is less than half a percentage point, and there is currently no more than 0.3 percentage point difference between Biden and Trump. The state government has already sent machines that quickly scan ballots to all counties for this purpose. That conversion is expected to be completed sometime next week.
Another state of mind
However, the political scientists TT spoke to don’t give much for the Trump campaign’s attempts to change the outcome of the election. Conversions rarely change an end result by more than a dozen hundred votes. Joe Biden’s margin of victory in Georgia, Pennsylvania and Michigan is simply too great. And the lawsuits the Trump campaign is pursuing in court regarding alleged election fraud so far lack convincing evidence.
But intensive testing is underway.
Earlier this week, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court rejected the Trump campaign’s complaint that its election observers had not gotten close enough to the counting process. But overnight through Thursday, the campaign filed a new lawsuit, simply demanding that the incumbent president be named the winner or that the state government (Republican) be allowed to name Pennsylvania voters, the online newspaper writes. Politician. It is considered to have little chance of passing.
Final results from Pennsylvania will be verified on Monday.
Unclear in the Detroit area
It will also be the result of the elections in Michigan, where two Republicans from the most populous county in Wayne County (which includes Detroit) have just withdrawn their votes that gave the green light to secure the result there. The two claim they were intimidated and pressured to vote through the result, and that they were promised a vote count review that was not met, Fox News television reports.
It is unclear how this affects the state’s verification of results, with Joe Biden receiving 50.6 percent of the vote and Donald Trump 47.8 percent.
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