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Joe Biden has been confirmed as the winner of the Nov. 3 election in Georgia after a manual recount of the ballots.
The audit began after unofficial results showed Biden as the leading president, Donald Trump, by about 14,000 votes.
Following the recount, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said there was “no question” that the state would certify Mr bidenFriday victory.
“The audit has lined up very close to what we had in the election night reports,” he said.
“It’s so close, it’s not a thimble full of difference.”
Once the results are certified by the state, the losing campaign has two business days to request a recount as the margin remains within 0.5%.
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The news comes a few hours later Trump’s attorney, Rudy Giuliani used a press conference to repeat unsubstantiated claims that voter fraud was involved in the process that led to Biden’s victory.
Meanwhile, Trump and his allies lost three court rulings Thursday in their effort to prevent Biden from taking office, even as they continued to claim a viable path to victory.
In Georgia, a judge appointed by the president denied a request by Lin Wood, a conservative attorney, to stop the certification of Biden’s victory in the state.
Trump and his allies lost three court rulings on Thursday
The lawsuit alleges that Georgia election officials improperly changed the process for handling absentee ballots.
“Stopping certification literally at the eleventh hour would create confusion and deprivation of rights that, in my opinion, have no basis in law or fact,” said US District Judge Steven Grimberg.
A judge in Pennsylvania later rejected Trump’s campaign offer to invalidate some 2,200 ballots in Bucks County, near Philadelphia, over alleged defects such as missing “secret envelopes.”
The judge noted that the Trump campaign had stipulated that “there was no evidence of fraud, misconduct or wrongdoing with respect to the contested ballots.”
State election officials count
In Arizona, a state court judge dismissed a Republican-backed lawsuit that sought to prevent Phoenix officials from certifying Biden as the winner.
The Arizona Republican Party had asked Judge John Hannah to order a new audit of the ballots in Maricopa County, where the majority of Arizonans live, arguing that it was conducted in a way that violated state law.
The judge did not explain why he was denying the request, but said he will issue a longer decision soon.
The Arizona Republican Party said in a statement that it had sought “judicial clarification” of a law related to determining a sample for a post-election ballot audit.
