Georgia secretary of state announces full hand recount of presidential ballots

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published 11 November 2020

A recount will take place in Georgia.

Georgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger announced Wednesday that there will be a "full, by-hand" recount of ballots cast in the presidential election in every county in the state. The decision, which was anticipated, is the result of the narrowness of the current margin in the race, which President-elect Joe Biden leads by 14,000 votes.

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Raffensperger, a Republican, has expressed confidence about the handling of the election in his state, despite calls for his resignation from Georgia's GOP Sens. Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, which he quickly shot down. Still, he said the next stage in the process will be an "audit, a recount, and a recanvas all at once" that he hopes "will help build confidence" in the process. Read more at Axios.

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Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.

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