Georgia Will Begin Recounting Votes, With Biden Still Favored

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Georgia’s 159 counties were poised on Thursday to begin recounting nearly five million ballots in the presidential election, but confusion surrounded the proceedings even as county officials raced to get ready.

A day after Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, described the process as a hand recount, his subordinates said Thursday that it was technically an audit and not a recount, though it would have largely the same effect. Counties are being told to audit every vote cast and tally a new result by midnight on Wednesday, two days before the state’s Nov. 20 deadline to certify its results.

But after that, the Trump campaign can still request an official recount, if the result is within half a percentage point. That means President Trump could effectively get three bites at the apple — or the peach, as it were — in Georgia. Still, with the margin in the first tally giving Joseph R. Biden Jr. an edge of more than 14,000 votes, election observers do not believe any number of counts will alter the outcome.

Counties will begin their audits on Friday morning and are required to finish up by midnight on Nov. 18. Auditors from the counties’ elections divisions will sit at tables and count the ballots.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/georgia-will-begin-recounting-votes-with-biden-still-favored/ar-BB1aXFwc?li=BBnb7Kz

[exboyfil]

1. Someone needs to estimate what the Trump requested

recount would cost if he asks for it. It seems that could be a useful piece of information for the two Senate candidates.

[LisaL]

3. GA is not charging Trump anything for this.

They are calling it an audit.
Even though they are hand recounting the whole race.

[exboyfil]

4. He has the right to request another one after this one

which I think should be done anyway. That one would be optional, and I assume the state would pay for it. If he does request it, then I think points could be scored because the taxpayers of Georgia will be asked to fund a useless second recount.

[MineralMan]

2. No statewide recount is going to overturn a 14,000 vote margin.

That ain't happening. Not even in Georgia.

[Hela]

5. Too bad they're not counting

the votes for Senator, too. From what I've seen in some other states, there was some hinky stuff going on in a lot of those down-ballot races.