With consideration centered on Georgia and its 16 electoral votes, about 200,000 ballots stay uncounted, the state’s high election official, Secret
With consideration centered on Georgia and its 16 electoral votes, about 200,000 ballots stay uncounted, the state’s high election official, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, stated on Wednesday.
Of the remaining ballots, about 70,000 had been from Fulton County, dwelling to most of Atlanta, and are believed to favor former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.
A mere 100,000 votes at the moment separate the 2 candidates in Georgia, with President. Trump at the moment main with 50.5 p.c of the vote, or 2.38 million votes.
Georgia’s voters had been in a position to submit absentee ballots by means of drop packing containers across the state as late as 7 p.m. Tuesday. After assortment, they needed to be delivered to elections places of work earlier than they could possibly be counted.
The counting course of might be labor-intensive. Ballots should be manually faraway from envelopes by election staff, then positioned in scanners for tabulation. In some circumstances, they require human overview for verification.
There have been additionally issues in a number of counties that brought about delays within the processing on Tuesday. In Fulton County, the state’s most populous and residential to Atlanta, officers had initially stated they hoped to have ballots totally processed on Election Day.
However a water pipe break in a room being utilized by Fulton County to course of these ballots disrupted operations Tuesday morning, delaying the counting of an estimated 50,000 ballots.
Northwest of Atlanta, in suburban Cobb County, roughly 15,000 absentee ballots had but to be processed on Wednesday morning, based on the county’s elections and registration director, Janine Eveler. These must be processed on Wednesday or Thursday, she stated.
Moreover, 882 provisional ballots are anticipated to be processed on Friday, as are ballots forged by uniformed and abroad residents, and people with lacking or mismatched signatures that should be mounted and verified, or “cured by affidavit,” Ms. Eveler stated.