Counting votes in Georgia: Biden won, Trump made more defeats

President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in Georgia was confirmed by the recount. Meanwhile, attempts to challenge the law by Trump’s allies in all three states have been scrapped.

Biden beat Trump in Georgia with 12,284 votes, according to a test required by state law.

Biden said he firmly believed that Trump knew he was not going to win and displayed “astonishing irresponsibility.”

Biden will take office in January as the 46th president of the United States.

Biden’s difference with Trump in the popular vote is more than 5.9 million. His victory in the U.S. electoral college system, which determines who will become president, is predicted to be 306 compared to Trump’s 232 votes.

On Thursday, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said manual verification of the ballots did not change Biden’s victory in the state.

“The first statewide ballot review in Georgia’s history reaffirmed that the state’s secure voting system had standardized and accurate results,” Raffensberger said in a statement.

“This is a tribute to the hard work of our county and local election officials, who have been rapidly undertaking and completing such important tasks in such a short time.”

The tally showed the highest error rate of any county at 0.73% and the overall margin between Biden and Trump remained below 0.5%.

Results will be confirmed on Friday.

Trumpm’s senior campaign counsel Jenna Ellis said the review was “exactly as we expected” because she said there was no evidence the state had counted. more illegal votes.

However, Gabriel Sterling, a Republican taking on the role of administrator of Georgia’s voting system, told CNN on Thursday: “One of the big complaints is that these machines somehow flip the ballot results or change, whatever. But it’s not, at least in Georgia they don’t. We tested it. “

During this week’s recount, nearly 6,000 unconfirmed votes were found, smoothing out Biden’s gap with Trump, but it was human error, not fraud, Sterling said. .

Local media reported Thursday that Floyd County officials fired their election manager over the matter.

Since the Bill Clintion in 1992, the state of Georgia has not voted for a Democratic candidate in the White House.

He spoke after an online meeting with governors, including Democrats and Republicans, about the corona virus crisis.

When asked about Trump’s failure to concede, Biden said the president was sending “very damaging messages … to the world about how democracy works” and that Trump will be remembered. as “one of the most irresponsible presidents in the history of the United States.”

“It is difficult to detect what this man meant,” he added: “What he is doing is overwhelming.”

Regarding the election results, the Democratic president-elect, who will take office in January, said: “The vast majority of people believe this is legal.”

Over the course of a few hours Thursday, Trump allies addressed legal roadblocks in Georgia, Arizona and Pennsylvania.

Republicans lost their last lawsuit in Georgia When the court dismisses his attempts to block the certification of the result, it is scheduled for Friday. The judge who made this decision was the one Trump appointed last year.

In Arizona, a judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by the state Republican Party last week for a new review of the ballots in Maricopa County, including Phoenix, the state capital and the largest city. .

In PennsylvaniaThe Trump campaign lost in state court to demand the removal of more than 2,000 postal ballots.

At their meeting Thursday, Trump’s attorney, Rudy Giuliani, continued to put forward unfounded conspiracy theories and allegations of voter fraud.

He objected to reporting on his group’s legal challenges, saying the media had displayed “an absurd and sick hatred of the president.”

Giuliani also said that the campaign is withdrawing the last remaining lawsuit in Michigan. They have achieved their goal, he said, of stopping the certification of results in a key district.

However, the Wayne County election campaign vice president said the effort by two Republicans to cancel prior confirmation of the results was invalid and that confirmation was required.

A member of the Republican Party said Trump called her privately after the vote was certified “to make sure I’m safe.”

According to unofficial results, Biden won the district by a large margin and prevailed in Michigan with about 146,000 votes.

One possibility that the US media speculates is that it will try to make legislatures of key committees sympathize with the Republican party, to overwhelm the choice of voters and instead select members. Electoral College of the United States, who are in favor of the president.

Trump invited Republican lawmakers from Michigan to the White House on Friday, hinting at a possible tactical change.

The United States is a democratic republic, instead of winning by direct popular vote, a president must win the majority of “electors” that each state is designated according to the number of senators and its population. schedule in each state.

Most states determine who to vote for based on the number of popular votes in that state.

But federal law says state legislators have the right to choose voters if the state “has no other choice.”

This seems like a risky move because so far there is no evidence of fraud and the deprivation of the election results of millions of voters could cause chaos.

The Reuters news agency quoted a source familiar with Trump’s tactics as saying it was a “more specific approach to engaging lawmakers.”

But one of the Michigan lawmakers coming to the White House, Mike Shirkey, said earlier this week that the legislature appointing voters “is not going to happen.”