With consideration targeted on Georgia and its 16 electoral votes, about 200,000 ballots stay uncounted, the state’s prime election official, Secre
With consideration targeted on Georgia and its 16 electoral votes, about 200,000 ballots stay uncounted, the state’s prime election official, Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, stated on Wednesday.
Of the remaining ballots, about 70,000 have 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 presently separate the 2 candidates in Georgia, with President. Trump presently main with 50.5 % of the vote, or 2.38 million votes.
Georgia’s voters have been capable of submit absentee ballots by drop bins 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 might be counted.
The counting course of might be labor-intensive. Ballots should be manually faraway from envelopes by election employees, then positioned in scanners for tabulation. In some circumstances, they require human evaluate for verification.
There have been additionally issues in a number of counties that precipitated 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, in keeping with 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 fastened and verified, or “cured by affidavit,” Ms. Eveler stated.