Results Of Georgia Recount
Georgia’s hand audit of ballots cast in the presidential election is proceeding rapidly with little change in the results so far, according to lawyers working for President-elect Joe Biden’s. More than 2,600 ballots in Georgia’s Floyd County that have not been tallied were recently found during a recount in the state for the 2020 presidential election, according to reports. 19 (UPI) - Georgia announced Thursday that its manual recount of ballots reaffirmed President-elect Joe Biden as the first Democrat to win the state in nearly 30 years. The audit results.
ATLANTA— A hand recount of the presidential race in Georgia's closely watched election audit has turned up 2,600 previously uncounted votes in one county.
'The reason you do an audit is to find this kind of thing,' Gabriel Sterling, who oversaw the implementation of the new election system for the secretary of state's office, said Monday night.
President Trump could see a gain of about 800 net votes from the newly discovered ballots in Floyd County.
The error occurred because county election officials failed to upload votes from a memory card in a ballot scanning machine, Sterling said, adding that he believed Floyd County's elections director should resign.
'It's not an equipment issue,' Sterling said. 'It's a person not executing their job properly. This is the kind of situation that requires a change at the top of their management side.'
Luke Martin, chairman of the Floyd County Republican Party, called the error 'very concerning' but added that he didn't think it was 'a widespread issue.'
'I'm glad the audit revealed it, and it's important that all votes are counted,' he told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Nearly 5 million votes were cast in Georgia's presidential race.
Democratic candidate Joe Biden led Trump in Georgia by about 14,000 votes before the recount.
The Floyd County election board chairman said he didn't have an immediate breakdown of the newly discovered ballots, but unofficial results previously showed Trump with 70% of the county's votes to 28.4% for Biden.
The uncounted votes in Floyd County represent the most significant error that has been found during Georgia's massive recount.
More than 100 counties have until 11:59 p.m. Wednesday to complete their recount. The results will be finalized on Friday.
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has said that the other counties' recounted figures largely match their original numbers.
Raffensperger has been under attack by Trump and other high-profile Republicans who have repeatedly taken shots at Georgia's ability to provide fair and accurate vote tallies.
The Republican became the target of his own party after he said that there had been no widespread voter fraud in Georgia's presidential election.
The state's two incumbent GOP senators, who are in twin high-stakes runoffs in January that will determine the balance of power in the U.S. Senate, called for Raffensperger's resignation and condemned the presidential election as an 'embarrassment.'
Raffensperger told the Washington Post on Monday he and his wife, Tricia, have received death threats, including a text that read, 'You better not botch this recount. Your life depends on it.'
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More than 2,600 ballots in Georgia’s Floyd County that have not been tallied were recently found during a recount in the state for the 2020 presidential election, according to reports.
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Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger blamed the problem on Floyd County election officials failing to upload votes from a memory card in a ballot-scanning machine.
Georgia began recounting its nearly 5 million ballots by hand on Friday after President Donald Trump and the Republican Party requested a statewide audit.
Cobb County Election officials handle ballots during an audit, Monday, Nov. 16, 2020, in Marietta, Ga. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)
The 2,600 previously uncounted ballots in the county marked the most significant issue so far uncovered in the recount process. Floyd County Republican Party chair Luke Martin called the mishap “concerning” but insisted that it “doesn’t appear to be a widespread issue.”
“I’m glad the audit revealed it, and it’s important that all votes are counted,” Martin told the Atlanta-Journal Constitution.
Other counties so far have not found uncounted ballots, with recount figures closely matching their original numbers, Raffensperger said.
Though President Trump has decried alleged voter fraud, the accounted ballots will likely do little to close the 14,000-vote gap with President-Elect Joe Biden. If Biden does emerge victorious, he will have clinched the Peach State's 16 electoral votes -- flipping a historically-red southern battleground.
Gabriel Sterling of the Secretary of State’s office told WSB-TV that the newly discovered ballots will hand Trump an additional 800 votes – which still leaves Biden in the lead.
At a Monday evening news conference, Sterling called for Floyd County’s elections director to step down.
“The secretary of, since this was such an amazing blunder and they had issues in August, would like to see that elections director in Floyd County step down from his position,” Sterling said.
Fox News reached out to the Floyd County Board of Elections and Voter Registration for comment but did not hear back.
The states' 159 counties and thousands of county and poll workers have a deadline of Wednesday, Nov. 18 at midnight to finish the recount.
Fox News' Julia Musto contributed to this report.